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Recent Examples of god
Whatever happens after that is up to fate and the basketball gods.
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Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2026
The debaucherous festival, which celebrated the coming of spring, included animal sacrifices and drunken revelry to honor Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as the Roman founders Romulus and Remus.
—Marina Johnson, IndyStar, 5 Feb. 2026
Las Vegas is no longer the seat of the sportsbook gods.
—Dan Piepenbring, New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2026
Well, the football gods have a sense of humor.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026
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Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2026
The debaucherous festival, which celebrated the coming of spring, included animal sacrifices and drunken revelry to honor Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as the Roman founders Romulus and Remus.
—Marina Johnson, IndyStar, 5 Feb. 2026
Las Vegas is no longer the seat of the sportsbook gods.
—Dan Piepenbring, New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2026
Well, the football gods have a sense of humor.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for god
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In the 20th century, the scientific community and environmental activists adopted the term Gaia – the Greek goddess personifying the Earth, the mother of all deities – to reflect the notion of the Earth as a living system.—
Melinda Laituri,
The Conversation,
4 Feb. 2026
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Grasping hands reach out in despair, deities wield tridents and divine lotus flowers symbolize the 16 levels of Brahma (higher realms).—
Vicky Smith,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Hume became one of modern atheism’s great intellectual heroes by rejecting this idea.—
Christopher Beha,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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Above one entryway, a sword is lodged in the stone, said to have found its place there in the eighth century after being thrown more than 100 miles by Roland, the hero of the medieval chanson that bears his name.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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Before her fateful downhill run Sunday — one that ended with a violent crash after 13 seconds — Lindsey Vonn pulled on a pair of out-of-production gloves from her childhood skiing idol, Picabo Street.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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But there is a theatrical beauty to Curwen’s work that remains appealing despite his protestations, drawing parallels with his idols Lee Alexander McQueen and John Galliano.—
Ari Stark,
Footwear News,
11 Feb. 2026
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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 18 Feb. 2026.
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