Thesaurus results for MARVEL

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 was performance at its peak, a marvel to behold of an artist who helped build hip-hop as an institution while adding to the story still being written. — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 25 Oct. 2026 The fact that Drew still gazed upon my more than half-a-century-old, decidedly not-hot physique with love and desire was a marvel and a gift. — Diana Daniele, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026 Don’t miss this cinematic marvel that must be experienced on the big screen! — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 20 Oct. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for marvel

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Noun

At this point, their winning one or two games would seem like a miracle.

— David Troy OutKick, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026
Maybe that could explain some of the college basketball versions of a miracle that have crossed over to Villanova.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of miracle

Noun

Where Gulliver’s Travels is filled with wonder and strangeness, Robinson Crusoe is a novel of schedules, organizational planning, and economic strategizing.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2026
Huber wonders if, without the buffer, a storm could wash mud into the parking lot behind Undercurrent.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of wonder

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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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