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also hermetical
as in esoteric
difficult for one of ordinary knowledge or intelligence to understand
wrote hermetic poetry whose sole intended readership was himself
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Recent Examples of hermetic
Despite appearances to the contrary—the swirling sentences, the feverish intellection—there is nothing hermetic about Krasznahorkai’s work, both old and new, which squarely faces contemporary European reality and its perils, including the tortured dynamics of settlement, movement, and identity.
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James Wood, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2025
On Ohio Players, the often hermetic duo brought in collaborators like Beck, Dan the Automator, and Noel Gallagher to add some new flavors to their signature high-definition garage-rock.
—Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
But this has never happened with Fox, because, despite his hermetic reputation preceding him, the legend is backed by its weight in musical gold.
—Nate Rogers, Vulture, 22 May 2025
But even in their most hermetic iterations, these stories carry with them the weight of an incredibly tumultuous quarter-century.
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2025
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James Wood, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2025
On Ohio Players, the often hermetic duo brought in collaborators like Beck, Dan the Automator, and Noel Gallagher to add some new flavors to their signature high-definition garage-rock.
—Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
But this has never happened with Fox, because, despite his hermetic reputation preceding him, the legend is backed by its weight in musical gold.
—Nate Rogers, Vulture, 22 May 2025
But even in their most hermetic iterations, these stories carry with them the weight of an incredibly tumultuous quarter-century.
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hermetic
Adjective
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With the Games comes the quadrennial tradition of casual sports fans becoming experts in esoteric sports—for a couple weeks, at least.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2026
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Much of the group’s cosmology derives from The Urantia Book, a mishmash of Christianity, metaphysics, and esoteric spirituality, that was purportedly written by celestial beings and published anonymously in 1955.—
Jane Borden,
Rolling Stone,
5 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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For the journalist’s son, Anshul Chhatrapati, the verdict was a moment of profound relief after a fight extending nearly two decades.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
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Cuddihy and his colleagues theorized that these regular encounters with fire—and their unwanted consequences—would inevitably have a profound effect on any species over tens of thousands of years.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Hermetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermetic. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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