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Recent Examples of messianic
Students of economic history are familiar with President Theodore Roosevelt's messianic trust-busting and the command economy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.
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Senior Fellow, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Believing that conversations with AI have revealed hidden truths about the world or suggested messianic missions.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Palantir’s shadowy vibes tend to be amplified by its CEO’s quasi-messianic tendencies.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
But these guys do seem to give themselves this sort of messianic quality, right?
—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2025
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Senior Fellow, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
Believing that conversations with AI have revealed hidden truths about the world or suggested messianic missions.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Palantir’s shadowy vibes tend to be amplified by its CEO’s quasi-messianic tendencies.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2025
But these guys do seem to give themselves this sort of messianic quality, right?
—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for messianic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for messianic
Adjective
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The overseers noted, however, that the most zealous learners in the workhouse’s voluntary night literacy classes were Black men.—
Equal Justice Initiative,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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Towns like Savyntsi are getting help from a loose movement of nonprofits and zealous volunteers such as Markevych, the psychologist who founded the Mobile School of Resilience three years ago.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Critics lambasted those policies as impractical at best, reckless at worst.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
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The Countach is also famously impractical and a pain to drive, so the next buyer will likely be taking on a more-than-usual stewardship role in terms of old supercars, the service not being to themselves but to the wider community, which gets to look at the Countach rather than operate it.—
Erik Shilling,
Robb Report,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Mamdani must now navigate the unending demands of America’s biggest city and deliver on ambitious — skeptics say unrealistic — campaign promises.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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In an era shaped by social media filters and unrealistic standards, that level of care has become more important than ever.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Samson noted that throughout fashion history, only garments for women have been designed with rear closures, with the possible exception amid the utopian Saint-Simonian sect in 19th-century France, when men wore waistcoats that fastened from behind, requiring assistance.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
7 Nov. 2025
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He’s shown to have spent some time living in the utopian Oneida Community, an early free-love experiment remembered now as a cult, where he was rejected.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
7 Nov. 2025
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Yet other filmmakers pick up on the thread of romantic longing Whale introduced in 1935 with The Bride of Frankenstein, leading to films like Edward Scissorhands (1990) in which the monster becomes a sentimental anti-hero.—
Katie Rife,
Vulture,
9 Nov. 2025
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Family heirlooms or sentimental items might not be used frequently (or at all), but the emotional attachment to these things is worth the valuable space on your storage shelves.—
Emily Williams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Nov. 2025
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“Messianic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/messianic. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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