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as in magic
having seemingly supernatural qualities or powers
the notion that a cat has nine lives is based upon the belief that nine is a mystic number
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as in mysterious
being beyond one's powers to know, understand, or explain
the belief that there are mystic forces at work here
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as in ambiguous
having an often intentionally veiled or uncertain meaning
mystic prophesies that are never understood until it is too late
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Recent Examples of mystic
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
From early January through Fat Tuesday, Mobile comes alive with weeks of parades, masked balls, royal coronations, and the delightfully quirky rituals of its mystic societies (similar to NOLA’s parade-throwing krewes).
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Ellen Carpenter,
AFAR Media,
15 Jan. 2026
Rebecca McCarthy,
AJC.com,
28 Feb. 2026
The backstory Founded in 1941 by British mystic Edwin John Dingle—better known as Ding Le Mei—the Mentalphysics Spiritual Teaching and Retreat Center was conceived as a sanctuary for spiritual inquiry and mental well-being.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Feb. 2026
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The Dera was founded in 1948 by the mystic Mastana Balochistani in the Haryana city of Sirsa, near the northern state’s borders with Punjab, India’s breadbasket, and the desert state of Rajasthan.
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Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
From early January through Fat Tuesday, Mobile comes alive with weeks of parades, masked balls, royal coronations, and the delightfully quirky rituals of its mystic societies (similar to NOLA’s parade-throwing krewes).
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Ellen Carpenter,
AFAR Media,
15 Jan. 2026
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In 1976, Barks encountered the 13th century Sufi mystic and poet Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, who would change his life and alter his career.
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Rebecca McCarthy,
AJC.com,
28 Feb. 2026
The backstory Founded in 1941 by British mystic Edwin John Dingle—better known as Ding Le Mei—the Mentalphysics Spiritual Teaching and Retreat Center was conceived as a sanctuary for spiritual inquiry and mental well-being.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mystic
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Volunteers organized the supplies — toothbrushes, baby wipes, instant soup and many other items — and loaded them into boxes, drawing hearts on the outside with magic marker.
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Skubal was last seen yelling profanities at magic wander Mike Vasil but would nevertheless fit in well in the Sox clubhouse and give Sox fans reason to believe this team can do something in October.
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Beulah's spurned heir Joaquin (Juan Pablo Raba) calls up the mysterious Mariana (Raoul Max Trujillo) to help with his many problems, which include his ranch-usurping half-brother Rob-Will and those Duttons from Montana.
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Nicolas Winding Refn’s audacious return to feature filmmaking is a gorgeous, mysterious act of cinema, sensorial and transgressive, that demands to be experienced on its own terms.
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Vermeule—a former clerk for Scalia—proposes that conservatives should read the Constitution’s ambiguous phrases and general structure in an openly moral way, drawing on principles grounded in the nature and purposes of government.
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Without a unified, clean, and accessible data structure, AI outputs quickly become ambiguous, hallucinated, and diluted, deepening the clarity crisis rather than resolving it.
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Back in the ’90s, videos about computer chips and global warming serve as oracles.
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There’s a moment inside Nick Doyle’s new show at Perrotin when his AI oracle Ava stops feeling like a gimmick and starts sounding uncomfortably familiar.
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Dusty navy blue and shiny gold accents make this collection's decor feel even more magical.
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For over 40 years now, Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin has made some of the strangest, most beautiful movies in existence, films that replicate the magical qualities of cinema in its infancy, both paying tribute to Maddin’s influences and wryly satirizing them.
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His doctors speculated his infection might have been a rare case of cryptic transmission from sharing meals and bathrooms with his coworkers, one of whom apparently had a tapeworm infection.
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The Drama stirred debate on social media over its cryptic marketing campaign that did not directly divulge the main focus of the film.
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The top-of-the-line chef’s kitchen sports metallic cabinetry paired with dark marble countertops and backsplashes.
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These include rolled or folded leaf blades, a dark or blue tinge to the foliage, or lingering footprints after walking on the lawn.
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Not in seers, not in sibyls, not in spirits from the great beyond.
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Post-Homeric legends relate that after returning to Ithaca Odysseus traveled to northern Greece to appease Poseidon, having descended to the underworld in the Odyssey to consult the seer Tiresias on the manner of expiation.
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“Mystic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mystic. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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