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marvel

noun

ˈmär-vəl

Definition of marvel

as in miracle

something extraordinary or surprising that new electric car really is a marvel

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Recent Examples of marvel Frances marvels at how quickly people are radicalized online, how the machine essentially transforms them from one type of individual to another. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2026 One of the best places to enjoy the foliage in the Asheville area is the Blue Ridge Parkway, a 469-mile marvel through Appalachia that can often seem like one long scenic drive. — Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026 One named Jackie marvels at nothing in particular on a grubby London street. — Lauren Jackson, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026 Unlike other pipe organs, these engineering marvels have percussive sound effects for thunderclaps, horse hooves and train whistles, perfect for old movie palaces. — Cooper Katz McKim, NPR, 2 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for marvel

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The re-emergence of a long-unseen Jean-Michel Basquiat masterpiece is a miracle the art market occasionally performs.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2026
On Saturday, with the usual early season smattering of fans lost in the cavernous Yale Bowl, Dante Reno didn’t have another comeback or miracle game in him.

— Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of miracle

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The health emergency caused demand for fuel to crash to the point that the world ran out of room to store oil, a phenomenon that briefly drove crude oil futures below zero for the first time ever.

— Matt Egan, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026
In 1980, to better understand this phenomenon, the mathematician and economist Graciela Chichilnisky turned to topology, an area of math in which shapes are considered equivalent if one can be stretched into another without tearing.

— Alex Stone, Quanta Magazine, 26 Oct. 2026

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