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Recent Examples of messianic
Much was remarkable about the event—the huge turnout, the alternating notes of forgiveness and retribution, the generally messianic atmosphere—but something that Pete Hegseth, the Fox host turned Pentagon chief, said onstage stood out to me.
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Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Cosmists who believed in technology as a messianic force clashed not just with the Svyatogor camp, but also with the communists, whose guiding ideology of Marxism-Leninism was predicated on the dismantling of age-old social systems to establish a novel world order.
—Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 12 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
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Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Cosmists who believed in technology as a messianic force clashed not just with the Svyatogor camp, but also with the communists, whose guiding ideology of Marxism-Leninism was predicated on the dismantling of age-old social systems to establish a novel world order.
—Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 12 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for messianic
Adjective
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Since the library’s books all date from before 1755, a major job here is preservation, and the zealous doorkeeper opens the big front door sparingly to keep out humidity.—
Rick Steves,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Jan. 2026
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The Washington Post has a long history of zealous support for robust press freedoms.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
15 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Is to attend a literary salon hosted by an heritage brand a signifier of an impractical life?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Feb. 2026
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But this season, the looks that made the highest impact eschewed function for jaw-dropping, delightfully impractical looks.—
Kara Jillian Brown,
InStyle,
19 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Nothing unrealistic or extraordinary.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
24 Feb. 2026
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Each is still saying the other has unrealistic and greedy demands.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
20 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The film’s early images — lush fairways, orderly golf course rituals, bodies moving through a dewy, manicured world of leisure — project an intoxicating, utopian calm.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Feb. 2026
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The album’s bookends are fittingly utopian.—
Alex Robert Ross,
Pitchfork,
13 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The United States went to war in 2001 and 2003 with a very moralistic, very crusading view of war, a very black-and-white view that there were good guys and bad guys, and America would wield the swift sword of justice.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
10 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The result is a sentimental arts-and-crafts project given cinematic form, in ways that occasionally blur the line between reality and artistic representation.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
20 Feb. 2026
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Well, there’s the sentimental side of me that grew up watching Carson that liked that.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Messianic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/messianic. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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