Thesaurus results for EIDOLON

eidolon

noun

ī-ˈdō-lən

as in model

someone of such unequaled perfection as to deserve imitation an industrialist who remains an eidolon of the visionary and ambitious self-made man

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Recent Examples of eidolon Try Audible for free Chapter 3 eidolon, noun (seventeenth century): a spirit, phantom, or apparition Martha turned and fled through the crowd, down the wide flight of stone steps, and out into Beaumont Street, looking at nothing but the ground. —

CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025 To enlist Helen, rather than the more popular The Trojan Women, for an antiwar theme makes sense especially in the wake of the conflict in Iraq: Helen posits that a decade-long war was fought and a civilization destroyed over a mirage, an eidolon. —

Lidija Haas, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020 To enlist Helen, rather than the more popular The Trojan Women, for an antiwar theme makes sense especially in the wake of the conflict in Iraq: Helen posits that a decade-long war was fought and a civilization destroyed over a mirage, an eidolon. —

Lidija Haas, Harper's magazine, 2 Mar. 2020

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Some models feature replaceable blades, like the Milk Street Kitchen Precision peeler, which retails for $30, but by peeler standards that’s high.

— Jennifer Zyman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 28 Apr. 2026
For four of these systems, the observations were sensitive enough to allow the astronomers to measure the masses of the component stars from first principles, independent of any guidance from theoretical models.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Apr. 2026