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as in deity
a being having superhuman powers and control over a particular part of life or the world in some belief systems, natural forces like the wind and the sea were gods

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as in Lord
capitalized the being worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe let us give thanks to God

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as in hero
a person who is the object of extreme or uncritical devotion in the eyes of many film critics, Alfred Hitchcock is one of the undisputed gods of cinema

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Recent Examples of god But the Survivor gods weren’t as empathetic as the Uli and Hina tribes were. Nick Caruso, TVLine, 8 Oct. 2025 Ares, which takes his name from the Greek god of war and is played by Jared Leto with his usual dead-eyed charisma. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025 Despite weekend storms and some early-morning rain, the weather gods were smiling on Celine with blue skies and sun in the garden of the Domaine National de Saint-Cloud on the outskirts of Paris. Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025 The practice began in earnest with Anders Breivik, who in 2011, motivated by White supremacy, carried out a mass killing of over 70 people in Norway, Rutland said, adding Breivik inscribed slogans on his weapons and gave them names after Norse gods like Odin and Thor. Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for god
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Noun
  • And evidence that the planets came to be associated with the gods lies in their very names, which represent ancient deities from Roman and Greek.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Named after the Aztec sun deity, the 30-year-old Los Angeles native has a career that is on fire.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025
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  • Trump received a hero’s welcome by the Knesset — as well as being briefly heckled by a left-wing member, who was promptly escorted out — after brokering a ceasefire that raised hopes for lasting peace in the region.
    Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • There’s a cosmogony in which the world is fashioned from the corpse of a slain giant or a protohuman, and another in which a hero, Prometheus-style, steals fire from the gods and gives it to mortals.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
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  • Outside the realm of pop idols and superheroes, some young commentators are still performing the classic critical duty of digging into the obscure and underrated.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In two years' time, it will be played at Adare Manor, Ireland, where the five-time major champion is an absolute idol.
    Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
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  • Even Ethan Almighty has been affected by the generosity of Supplies Over Seas.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 7 Aug. 2025
  • By the time Laras is making like Linda Blair, malicious jinn power resisting that of Almighty Allah, the film has already gone down a familiar path of grotesque makeup, stunts and digital FX.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
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  • The first — Nietzsche’s 1881 Eternal Recurrence — is a life test by design, echoing Camus’ Sisyphus.
    Shai Tubali, Big Think, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Some cultures, Eliade shows, preserve their eternals by simply denying the force of history; in Lyell’s case, the culture at hand was Christianity, and the ideal was the unique status of humankind.
    Lewis Hyde, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025

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“God.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/god. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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