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Recent Examples of angelic
And when Sherman Harrison heard his daughter’s angelic voice, all bets were off.
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Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 18 May 2026
For women over 40 looking for the perfect bold crimson or angelic pink, the color payoff is professional-grade, delivering long-lasting saturation that remains nondrying throughout the day.
—Micaela English, Glamour, 30 Apr. 2026
The difficulty is creating space for a righteous character’s wisdom without reducing them to an angelic caricature.
—Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
All the while, Gaga played out a loose storyline about her internal battle between her angelic and demonic sides.
—Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2026
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Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 18 May 2026
For women over 40 looking for the perfect bold crimson or angelic pink, the color payoff is professional-grade, delivering long-lasting saturation that remains nondrying throughout the day.
—Micaela English, Glamour, 30 Apr. 2026
The difficulty is creating space for a righteous character’s wisdom without reducing them to an angelic caricature.
—Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
All the while, Gaga played out a loose storyline about her internal battle between her angelic and demonic sides.
—Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for angelic
Adjective
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Her ghost of a smile should be parsed as beatific rapture.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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King is known for creating beatific dances in collaboration with master musicians, pieces that feature the artists on stage in San Francisco (though LINES Ballet often performs on tour with a recorded score).—
Andrew Gilbert,
Mercury News,
6 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Varsha is a pretty, cherubic girl with nut-brown eyes, short black braids and a sparkling smile that lights up her whole face.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2026
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And for anyone who follows mom-fluencers online, with their perfect kitchens, nutritious meals, cherubic offspring and seemingly perfect lives.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
9 June 2026
Adjective
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Pariah promises that now is not forever, and that refusing to compromise yourself is a blissful form of freedom.—
Rachel Simon,
Vulture,
19 June 2026
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Matchday in Panama is a blissful assault on the senses.—
Elias Burke,
New York Times,
10 June 2026
Adjective
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There’s nonetheless a critical tweak built into the scene involving the uses of childhood sentimentality, and here, again, Spielberg suggests a self-awareness of the dangers of his practice, and the essential importance of having a virtuous idea system at the heart of such a drama.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
16 June 2026
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Levenson highlights how the subtext of this attitude was that contracting a highly infectious disease was divine punishment for sin and that the only way to avoid disease was to live a virtuous life.—
Diana Gitig,
ArsTechnica,
30 May 2026
Adjective
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The transcendent talent could have gone out on top in 2022 after winning the Golden Ball as the best player in the World Cup for the second time.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
16 June 2026
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Yet some of his best coaching has come without transcendent stars.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 June 2026
Adjective
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Once again, extraordinary wealth is concentrating into fewer hands while technology races ahead faster than society’s moral conscience.—
Tom Debley,
Mercury News,
16 June 2026
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There are plenty of shows about the moral void of the rich, but none with so much fire in its belly, or ice in its veins.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2026
Adjective
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Some participants even characterize their experiences as transcendental, ecstatic, or spiritual.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 June 2026
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But in Soni’s careful translation, the repetitions and subtle variation of Verma’s poems also achieve a haunting, transcendental resonance.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
Adjective
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Long before scientists understood solar wind or magnetism, people associated auroras with spirits, omens, warriors, or celestial beings.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 June 2026
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Although the darkest, clearest skies can be found farther south, SkyBoma’s vantage over the endless bush offers remarkable celestial views.—
Lydia Price,
Travel + Leisure,
14 June 2026
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“Angelic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/angelic. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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