empyrean

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noun

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Recent Examples of empyrean
Adjective
In October, with three more of her novels now available in English and at least 20 other languages, the Swedish Academy awarded Han the Nobel Prize, elevating her to the empyrean realm reserved for writers of what is sometimes called world literature. Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025 Larraín’s third subject, Maria Callas, despite being born to an ignoble family and having to face wartime poverty during the 1940s, was no stranger to the trappings of an empyrean existence, but in constantly having to live up to it, like Diana, her life met an untimely end. Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 15 Dec. 2024 The event, held high up in skyscraping event venue Glasshouse Chelsea, offered sweeping vista views of the Manhattan and New Jersey skylines meant to evoke the game’s new empyrean setting. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2023 At their best, Harjo’s poems inform each other, linking her different modes, facilitating her tendency to zoom from a personal experience to a more empyrean one. Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2019 Louis leaves Prior, drawing the first line in a pattern of abandonment that informs the entire play, and finally stretches all the way into the empyrean kingdom of an absent God. Ben Brantley, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2018 Our badges looked different, we were afforded fewer privileges, and we were certainly kept in the dark about The Algorithm (pause for heavenly-choir noise effect) and other such empyrean secrets. Lucas Peterson, GQ, 22 May 2017
Noun
Magical empyrean is mundane Earth. Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2022 They are concealed in the empyrean. Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021 Betts is part of the Sox Sensation club with Fred Lynn and Nomar Garciaparra, all wildly popular and productive players who turned out to be supernovas streaking across the Boston baseball empyrean instead of franchise polestars. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2022 O’Keeffe places the viewer aloft, level with the bone, high up in the empyrean. Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021 Unfortunately, for those who see Mr. Donnelly’s empyrean status less as the result of an Immaculate Kawnception and more as another harbinger of Artistic Kawpocalypse, the show will do little to change previous conceptions about him or his art. Brian P. Kelly, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2021 That could quickly propel a few black schools into the athletic empyrean, and change the place of HBCUs in American culture. Jemele Hill, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2019 Grahm reaches for the empyrean, and Locke brings him back to earth, a table full of wine bottles between them. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018 Grahm reaches for the empyrean, and Locke brings him back to earth, a table full of wine bottles between them. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for empyrean
Adjective
  • The celestial events happen annually or at other intervals, NASA says.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 18 July 2025
  • According to the American Meteor Society, this celestial event is the most popular meteor shower.
    Jenny Porter Tilley, Louisville Courier Journal, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • If the sky turns ominous and thunder can be heard, find a secure place for shelter.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 24 July 2025
  • With the moon lost in the glare of the sun, the night sky will be moonless.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • Despite the kumbaya vibes, Santa Monica High was hardly a post-racial utopia.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025
  • Socialism is generally considered to be a Marxist utopia where the people, meaning the government, control the means of production.
    Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • Cromlix has recently introduced a whole bath time ritual which includes having your bath drawn for you, laden with heavenly essential oils, a relaxing playlist pumped into the expansive bathrooms and LED candles softly lighting the room.
    Felicity Carter, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025
  • This is the nature of heavenly bliss: to be happy with one’s lot and never look back.
    Mary Jo Bang July 9, Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • Such is the bliss of a new coach’s first few months that there’s nothing to suggest time and experience won’t correct everything.
    Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 11 July 2025
  • Chair Yoga with Susie, experience bliss and wellbeing.
    Ramona Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • As a global epicenter of style, Tokyo is a shopper’s paradise—the sluggish Japanese Yen and tax-free options help, too.
    Katie Chang, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
  • Wealth is a draw for the rich and poor alike, a capitalist paradise rooted in fervent belief and devotion.
    Emi Eleode, Time, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • The sky was the limit, or maybe not, and extended to the heavens far above.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
  • Scanning the heavens at the Vatican Observatory Perched in the hills outside Rome sits the Palace of Castel Gandolfo, the centuries-old lakeside summer home for popes, which is also home to the Vatican Observatory, established in 1891 to help bridge the chasm between religion and science.
    David Morgan, CBS News, 26 June 2025

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“Empyrean.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empyrean. Accessed 1 Aug. 2025.

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