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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 This makes these machines true marvels of innovation, not artists or creatives. — David Barber, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2026 The Aurzen Zip is a marvel of engineering, packing bright, colorful images, easy connectivity, and a full 90 minutes of battery life into its tiny shell. — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 28 Aug. 2026 These detectors are modern marvels in their own right and represent the culmination of a long heritage of new technology that enables new discoveries. — Don Figer, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2026 Inside the Mountain of Salt The SPR is a subsurface engineering marvel. — Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for marvel

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In a city where the sidewalks are full of people who’ve either made their name or come hoping to, the real miracle downtown was the quiet return of the ordinary.

— Susan Watts, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026
In a culture of aggregation and AI summary, the stiffest original thinking still feels as supple as a tone poem, and genuine intellectual ambition akin to a secular miracle.

— Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of miracle

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Grounded in tragedy and yet evoking a consistent sense of wonder, the lady of the house looks less like a mirror for her husband than a magnifying glass held over his genius and grotesquerie.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
But most of all, wonder feels scarce because contemporary life has depleted the value of the moment.

— Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of wonder

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This cyclic climate phenomenon drives up temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, altering the world’s climate and weather patterns for months.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2026
The key to this illusion is a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, first predicted by Albert Einstein's 1915 theory of gravity, general relativity, which also first predicted the existence of gravitational waves.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2026

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