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
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 godThe nonprofit civil rights organization FAIR, which supports the LDS Church, argued that is not true – that the church believes in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, not multiple gods.—Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 8 June 2026 The Sex Pistols and the Ramones were my gods, and each left their own trail of addiction and wreckage inside these walls.—Gene Park, Washington Post, 6 June 2026 My sister had been named for a girl raped by Zeus, god of all gods, who turned himself into a swan for the occasion.—Literary Hub, 3 June 2026 Knicks basketball in June is a gift from the sports gods that is not to be taken for granted.—Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for god
The two sculptures were formally transferred to the Kingdom of Cambodia at a ceremony yesterday, along with a third sandstone sculpture depicting the head of the Hindu deity Harihara.
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Anne Doran,
ARTnews.com,
11 June 2026
Instead, Chesnut said, indigenous people linked the figure with the death deities of their own ancient belief systems.
Even Ethan Almighty has been affected by the generosity of Supplies Over Seas.
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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.
All the usual fun Indy stuff is here – Nazis, treasured artifacts – though the bantering chemistry between Ford's hard-luck hero and Sean Connery as his grumpy dad is off-the-hook spectacular.
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Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
13 June 2026
Bradley, the cerebral forward and NBA Hall of Famer who helped deliver two championships to New York before becoming a US senator from New Jersey and presidential hopeful, was his hero.
The first — Nietzsche’s 1881 Eternal Recurrence — is a life test by design, echoing Camus’ Sisyphus.
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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.