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 godWhile the baseball gods were clearly not on the Orioles' side during Taveras' at-bat, his teammates managed to overcome the free out and score two runs in the bottom of the frame to tie things up at 4-4.—Mark Harris Outkick, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026 Plant, forever a rock god of the ‘70s, will appear with his new rock-folk band Saving Grace and singer Suzi Dian in Helzberg Hall.—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 9 June 2026 Not every artist is waiting for the algorithmic gods to show up.—John Kennedy, VIBE.com, 9 June 2026 The 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 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.
As the inscription had been damaged, researchers couldn’t decipher whether this tablet had cursed four slaves or whether four slaves had cried out to the Egyptian gods and demi-heroes, who knows?
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Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
20 June 2026
The kingdom and its press and thus the world could see the war hero and his monarch inextricably bound by allegiance to Britain.
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.
The production is a deeply personal look at her life and career, inspired by her beloved grandmother, Freddie Mae Glover, and her lifelong dream of becoming a comedic performer like her idol, Carol Burnett.
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Staff Author,
Southern Living,
16 June 2026
All advantages and idols are all transferrable at all times — aside from after the votes are read at Tribal Council.