variants also hermetical

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Recent Examples of hermetic The comparisons are mostly unflattering to The Phoenician Scheme, which is neither as touching nor as joyful as those earlier films, choked by the hermetic tidiness that occasionally haunts Anderson’s work. Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 June 2025 In this episode, the ladies finally move out of their hermetic bubble of giggles and gossip and start trying to engage more with their surroundings. Noel Murray, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2025 This isn’t a hermetic kind of meditation, one in which outer havoc is kept at bay. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025 Once a place where friends and family entered through perpetually open doors, the space becomes hermetic and airless when curtains are drawn to hide the men who have come to disrupt this idyllic refuge. Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hermetic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hermetic
esoteric
Adjective
  • The basic logic of the drink is, as mentioned, Negroni-like, but more esoteric on a number of fronts.
    Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2025
  • But this seems to me to be a far more likely possibility than Jesus making legendary journeys to India, Egypt, or even Britain, so popular in esoteric lore.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Hermetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermetic. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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