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Recent Examples of messianic
Next episode is the series finale, and Euphoria might finally deliver Rue’s redemption, or expose her messianic ambitions as a tragic delusion.
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Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2026
What social structures enabled Musk and his peers to acquire so much power, such that their messianic techno-reactionary futurism is a real threat rather than just fodder for b-rate science fiction?
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Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
That would get the doomsday Democrats and the messianic mullahs in Tehran talking.
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Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
13 Apr. 2026
Still, analysts say the combination of messianic belief and absolutist ideology creates a system in which confrontation is not only expected, but justified.
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Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
5 Apr. 2026
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Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2026
What social structures enabled Musk and his peers to acquire so much power, such that their messianic techno-reactionary futurism is a real threat rather than just fodder for b-rate science fiction?
—
Literary Hub,
23 Apr. 2026
That would get the doomsday Democrats and the messianic mullahs in Tehran talking.
—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
13 Apr. 2026
Still, analysts say the combination of messianic belief and absolutist ideology creates a system in which confrontation is not only expected, but justified.
—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
5 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for messianic
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Dunk, Welly and Shirm are on the interplanetary run from a zealous-yet-inept officer of the law named Zandro.
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On and off the field, soccer, the world’s most popular sport, ignites zealous passions.
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The firm at one earlier point had reportedly offered a service to screen against low intelligence in human embryos, which is a highly controversial and perhaps impractical idea.
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Pretty, functional storage solutions are the perfect antidote to impractical minimalism.
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And the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC, which oversees prediction markets, has previously brought enforcement actions against companies using simulated trades or making unrealistic claims about winnings.
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Musk has frequently set unrealistic timelines for projects, including putting a spacecraft on Mars by 2018.
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Southgate’s confident assertion that the tide of history was turning against bigotry now looks utopian, or even naïve.
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Le Guin depicts an alternative society much like humanity, but with one notable, utopian contingent.
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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.
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Throughout the night, sentimental videos from different chapters of Jackson's career played on the screens by the stage, along with messages from stars not in attendance like country singers Keith Urban, Zac Brown and Kenny Chesney as well as NASCAR drivers Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr.
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The series combines potty-mouthed put-downs with more sentimental story lines.
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“Messianic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/messianic. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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