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as in spiritual
not composed of matter
that ethereal attribute that every performer should have—charisma
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as in fluffy
resembling air in lightness
the bakery's scrumptious pastries have a wonderfully ethereal consistency
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as in celestial
of, relating to, or suggesting heaven
described as a land of ethereal beauty and tranquility
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Recent Examples of ethereal
Banerjee’s focus is on the ethereal endurance of Indian art and culture.
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Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2026
My hope is that images can convey a landscape scarred with secrets, where on rare mornings an ethereal mist rises off fields to meet the certainty of past violence held by the soil.
—Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
Labrinth, the British singer and songwriter whose ethereal vocals have served as Euphoria’s musical identity, will not feature in Season Three of the HBO hit, Rolling Stone has confirmed.
—Shirley Halperin, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2026
Immersion is the name of the game at White Sands National Park, which tends to draw adventurers and solitude seekers, along with photographers chasing the golden hours of sunrise and sunset, when the dunes glow an ethereal pink and blue.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2026
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Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2026
My hope is that images can convey a landscape scarred with secrets, where on rare mornings an ethereal mist rises off fields to meet the certainty of past violence held by the soil.
—Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
Labrinth, the British singer and songwriter whose ethereal vocals have served as Euphoria’s musical identity, will not feature in Season Three of the HBO hit, Rolling Stone has confirmed.
—Shirley Halperin, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2026
Immersion is the name of the game at White Sands National Park, which tends to draw adventurers and solitude seekers, along with photographers chasing the golden hours of sunrise and sunset, when the dunes glow an ethereal pink and blue.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ethereal
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Across TikTok, Instagram, Threads, YouTube, Goodreads, and Reddit, reactions have focused less on the craft of fiction writing than on the spiritual subjugation of women that any media about this topic must, by nature, interrogate and include.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
28 Apr. 2026
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During his trial in January, prosecutors said the former actor weaponized his reputation as a Lakota medicine man, exploiting cultural traditions and spiritual beliefs to prey on Indigenous women and girls.—
Janelle Ash,
FOXNews.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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The avocado toast starts with fluffy brioche and tops it with creamy avocado, pickled veg, crispy tofu and a scallion oil.—
Jess Fleming,
Twin Cities,
23 Apr. 2026
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Different textures of plants—fluffy, smooth, shiny, ruffled—add interest to your container garden.—
Midwest Living,
Midwest Living,
22 Apr. 2026
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The Arsenal manager invoked a bed of roses and the accompaniment of celestial music and formed an expression to suggest anyone expecting that was evidently disconnected from the reality of a Premier League title race.—
Amy Lawrence,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2026
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Winning three Oscar nominations, Cruise understandably took pride in his work in Born on the Fourth of July or even Lions for Lambs, but his career didn’t become became celestial until Top Gun.—
Peter Bart,
Deadline,
23 Apr. 2026
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Followers of the Abrahamic religions are supposed to treat God as immaterial and incorporeal, yet these early Yahweh worshippers imagined him as fully embodied.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2026
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Positioned as a large-scale genre event, the series updates the legendary SFX property with a contemporary political and social edge, with Shun Oguri leading the cast as a detective hunting a seemingly incorporeal killer.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Jan. 2026
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This heavenly spin on tiramisu is ideal for spring.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
22 Apr. 2026
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That’s to say, there’s earthly authority and there’s heavenly authority.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Apr. 2026
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The exhibition embraces contradiction, images that are grotesque and sacred, humorous and terrifying, physical and metaphysical.—
George Nelson,
ARTnews.com,
20 Apr. 2026
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Glenn Turner Turner is a leftist Oakland activist who retired after running a metaphysical and pagan shop for 30 years.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
19 Apr. 2026
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The difficulty is creating space for a righteous character’s wisdom without reducing them to an angelic caricature.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
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In the background were the American flag, the Statue of Liberty, the Lincoln Memorial, fighter jets, bald eagles and what appeared to be angelic soldiers of some kind up in the clouds.—
Joseph Konig,
PEOPLE,
13 Apr. 2026
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The former is right up the alley of fans of supernatural thrillers, while the latter pulls back the curtain on the invention of reality TV.—
Kat Chen,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Apr. 2026
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But where once engineers could use any raw ingredients at their disposal to make parts with almost supernatural structural abilities, the climate crisis dictates a change of strategy.—
Caitlin Kennedy,
Scientific American,
25 Apr. 2026
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“Ethereal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ethereal. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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