as in marvel
something extraordinary or surprising
it's a miracle that you weren't hurt in the accident
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Recent Examples of miracle
The latest miracle goo slathered on celebrity faces is salmon sperm — or, as it’s more politely known in the beauty biz, polynucleotides.
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Ingrid Schmidt, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2025
This is the country that, with drip irrigation, produced the miracle of growing food in the desert.
—Karl Vick, Time, 1 Aug. 2025
Even with a Texas miracle, though, Democrats will still need to win a race in at least one state that Donald Trump carried by double digits in 2024, whether that's Iowa, Alaska, Florida, or Nebraska.
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 July 2025
If companies start leaving and stop coming, then the Texas miracle is gone.
—John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
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Ingrid Schmidt, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2025
This is the country that, with drip irrigation, produced the miracle of growing food in the desert.
—Karl Vick, Time, 1 Aug. 2025
Even with a Texas miracle, though, Democrats will still need to win a race in at least one state that Donald Trump carried by double digits in 2024, whether that's Iowa, Alaska, Florida, or Nebraska.
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 July 2025
If companies start leaving and stop coming, then the Texas miracle is gone.
—John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for miracle
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Themes Woven from Everyday Wonder Rather than searching for drama, Bone Flute leans into the quiet marvels of everyday experience.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
12 Aug. 2025
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On Helgoland, researchers presented a parade of technological marvels that all depend on the quantum math of Heisenberg and Schrödinger.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Aug. 2025
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Northern Canada and Alaska will have the highest likelihood of viewing the phenomenon, once the sun sets in the state.—
Ty Roush,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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These past few weeks have also brought to mind the Kennedy researcher Harold Weisberg, whose early books were a countercultural phenomenon and who was known for his diligent, insistent filling of FOIA requests.—
Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
7 Aug. 2025
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The solipsism of low self-esteem is one of the wonders of the human psyche.—
Vivian Gornick,
New Yorker,
16 Aug. 2025
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Alves devoted part of that speech to the wonders of this country by providing the blessings of freedom and opportunity to people like him.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
16 Aug. 2025
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The games were marked by excess and anxiety: fortunes shifted across the table, hedge-fund prodigies sat elbow to elbow with film stars and men of ambiguous reputation, all of them suspended in the Plaza’s shimmering twilight.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Anne Wilson continues her blend of country and Christian music sounds on her new, four-song EP God Story, while bluegrass prodigy Wyatt Ellis teams with fellow bluegrass stalwarts Trey Hensley and Michael Cleveland to cover a 1950s country/bluegrass classic.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Miracle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miracle. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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