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Recent Examples of god
Versions of resolutions have existed for about 4,000 years; in Babylonia and ancient Rome, people prayed together, paid off their debts, and made promises of good conduct to their gods.
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Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025
Ninety-five percent of physicists who won the Nobel Prize in the twentieth century believed in a god.
—Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
So Roman King Numa Pompilius extended their calendar to 12 months by adding February and January, named after Janus, the Roman god of beginnings.
—Ayana Archie, NPR, 29 Dec. 2025
That’s Jets-level misfortune; the football gods telling you to pack it up for the season.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
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Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025
Ninety-five percent of physicists who won the Nobel Prize in the twentieth century believed in a god.
—Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
So Roman King Numa Pompilius extended their calendar to 12 months by adding February and January, named after Janus, the Roman god of beginnings.
—Ayana Archie, NPR, 29 Dec. 2025
That’s Jets-level misfortune; the football gods telling you to pack it up for the season.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for god
Noun
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The Sherpa call Chomolungma a deity.—
Corey Buhay,
Outside,
18 Dec. 2025
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Most are snide and strident, petty and self-serving, and their bickersome denunciations turn monotonous in ways that suggest, at times, a less-than-generous deity in the director’s chair.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
11 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Everyone needs a Scott Boland, the unsung hero of Australia’s 2025-26 Ashes win.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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Sure, playing Kingo, the buff immortal hero moonlighting as a Bollywood star in 2021’s Eternals — the first South Asian superhero in a Marvel movie, by the way — required a (now-viral) physical transformation.—
Kylie Gilbert,
InStyle,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The 58-year-old identical twins are the sons of Ricky Nelson — a teen idol of the 1950s and 60s who died in a tragic plane crash at age 45 — and the grandsons of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, the stars of the eponymous television show.—
Virginia Chamlee,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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His goal was to be just like his idol, legendary Iowa coach Dan Gable.—
Lori Riley,
Hartford Courant,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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
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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
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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 12 Jan. 2026.
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