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
  • How to watch the Milky Way shine bright in the sky? Steer away from light pollution and bright moon phases, as this contributes to the Milky Way’s fainter stars and celestial features fading into the night.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 20 May 2025
  • Thursday, May 22: Moon Meets Saturn About 45 minutes before sunrise, look low in the eastern sky for a lovely celestial scene: a 30%-lit waning crescent moon appearing just three degrees from the ringed planet, Saturn.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • On May 13, bright Antares will rise to the left of the waning gibbous moon in the southeastern sky, with just a few degrees of separation between the two celestial bodies.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 13 May 2025
  • If the sky becomes threatening and thunder can be heard, find a safe place to shelter.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • History shows us that promises of utopia are dangerous.
    Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • The anticipation of a world grown stale, the rot of what America had left behind ever ready to encroach, was of a piece with the puritan hunger for utopia.
    Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • Above us, the white smoke kept pouring out, a heavenly signal to the world.
    Christopher Hale, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
  • Last year’s victory came after McIlroy shot a final-round 65, at one point going 8-under-par in a heavenly eight-hole stretch.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • Outside of Madison Square Garden was chaotic bliss.
    James L. Edwards III, New York Times, 17 May 2025
  • But the bliss ended mere minutes later when, in a shocking moment of irony (reminiscent to when Serena became a handmaid herself in season five), a handmaid was waiting for the Whartons in their parlor.
    Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • Visitors can step into a foodie paradise featuring high-quality ingredients from honeys and oils to spice & sauce seasoning and BBQ rubs, delectable street food from Peru, Korea, India, Turkey, Scandinavia and more.
    Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
  • The Galápagos Islands of Ecuador need no introduction: The famous laboratory for Charles Darwin and his research on evolution are a naturalist’s paradise, brimming with endemic species.
    Jennifer Flowers, AFAR Media, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Thanks to her good karma, Maya had been reborn in the heavens as a god, but in Buddhism gods are not as spiritually advanced as Buddhas.
    Megan Bryson, The Conversation, 6 May 2025
  • This lyrical drama, choreographed by Dell Howlett, floats at times like a movement-theater piece reaching for the heavens.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025

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“Empyrean.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empyrean. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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