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as in deity
a being having superhuman powers and control over a particular part of life or the world in some belief systems, natural forces like the wind and the sea were gods

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as in Lord
capitalized the being worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe let us give thanks to God

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as in hero
a person who is the object of extreme or uncritical devotion in the eyes of many film critics, Alfred Hitchcock is one of the undisputed gods of cinema

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Recent Examples of god Black Friday candle sales are bountiful during this time of year, which is just one thing to thank the retail gods for during a hectic season. Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2025 Austin Butler’s cinema gods had thrown down a tablet, and written on that tablet was an invite to audition for Quentin Tarantino in person. Jay Glennie, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025 They’re served topped in a number of ways, on a good bun and with fast-food fries that are actually golden brown instead of pale yellow, as the burger gods intended. Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025 Game recognizes game, and Machado, 33, knows Pujols was a baseball god. Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for god
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  • Culturally, Shinto and Buddhist traditions emphasize respect for life and nature, which are deeply valued in Japan; in Nagano and Gifu prefectures, black bears are sometimes revered as mountain deities, researchers wrote in a paper this summer.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Dean boasts a great lineage coming from the prestigious BRIT School that produced music deities like Adele and Amy Winehouse.
    Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2025
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  • On Monday, he was posthumously named a national hero of Indonesia – prompting protests from human rights groups and victims who decried the award as whitewashing a repressive regime that left hundreds of thousands dead, according to historians.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The myth of Revere, the individual hero, the consummate voice of warning rising up against the odds, has become ingrained in the American zeitgeist, twisting its way through social movements, pop songs and marketing campaigns for more than a century.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
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  • The 28-year-old, a member of K-pop supergroup Blackpink, became the first K-pop idol to have her song be nominated in the Grammys’ main six, general field categories.
    Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
  • After Sage Ahrens-Nichols and Jawan Pitts flipped away from original Uli, Nate was vulnerable once the new coalition believed there was no way Rizo Velovic would ever play his immunity idol for the Rad Dad so decided to load all of their votes on the unsuspecting victim.
    Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Nov. 2025
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  • Even Ethan Almighty has been affected by the generosity of Supplies Over Seas.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 7 Aug. 2025
  • By the time Laras is making like Linda Blair, malicious jinn power resisting that of Almighty Allah, the film has already gone down a familiar path of grotesque makeup, stunts and digital FX.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
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  • The first — Nietzsche’s 1881 Eternal Recurrence — is a life test by design, echoing Camus’ Sisyphus.
    Shai Tubali, Big Think, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Some cultures, Eliade shows, preserve their eternals by simply denying the force of history; in Lyell’s case, the culture at hand was Christianity, and the ideal was the unique status of humankind.
    Lewis Hyde, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025

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“God.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/god. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.

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