as in mystic
impossible to prove, understand, or explain by either the senses or intelligence
Survivors of near-death experiences sometimes report mystical visions of the afterlife.
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Recent Examples of mystical
Maybe even something mystical magical.
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Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
Dennett, a pioneering philosopher and scientific naturalist who died in 2024, rejected mystical accounts of the mind.
—Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
Lately, it’s seemed like the mystical, historical, golden-age lore of it all is slipping away, with production largely moving out, work going away and everything changing.
—Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2025
There’s a mystical allure to the desert that attracts a wildly creative set of thinkers and artists.
—Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
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Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
Dennett, a pioneering philosopher and scientific naturalist who died in 2024, rejected mystical accounts of the mind.
—Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
Lately, it’s seemed like the mystical, historical, golden-age lore of it all is slipping away, with production largely moving out, work going away and everything changing.
—Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2025
There’s a mystical allure to the desert that attracts a wildly creative set of thinkers and artists.
—Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mystical
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Yet Blanc’s real faith lies in the nearly mystic quality involved in seeing what the human animal is capable of.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
7 Sep. 2025
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Yeats’s spirals, once dismissed as the wild diagrams of a mystic, now settle over this place like soot.—
Alaa Alqaisi
August 13,
Literary Hub,
13 Aug. 2025
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Some will experience that genuine psychic break with Zionism that many white South Africans did with their country’s system of oppression.—
Jack Sheehan
September 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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As Wednesday’s spirit guide, Weems reminds Wednesday that psychic abilities are ancestral, and that her estrangement from her mother was preventing her from getting her visions back.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
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The company’s extraordinary rise from an upstart carmaker to a global force in sustainable energy and transport has been fueled by his relentless ambition and uncanny ability to attract capital.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
5 Sep. 2025
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Although Romano rightly considered her depictions of dreams to be realistic, the book itself, with its uncanny, fragmented narratives, could not have been more distinct from the neorealist literature that was in vogue at the time.—
Brian Robert Moore
September 5,
Literary Hub,
5 Sep. 2025
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In an effort to help the group retrieve it, Guy encounters William Fitchner’s Jasper, a mysterious American who has quietly assumed control and influence over the Talamasca’s London Motherhouse.—
Abbey White,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
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Released in 2004, the film follows Sophie, a quiet girl working in a hat shop, who finds her life thrown into turmoil when she is literally swept off her feet by a handsome but mysterious wizard named Howl.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
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The nature of the evil that brought darkness and death into that Catholic church this week is unexplainable.—
Lee Habeeb,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
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Markle pops up in the first two episodes of Fringe's second season as junior FBI agent Amy Jessup, who briefly joins the Fringe Division while investigating an unexplainable NYC crash.—
James Mercadante,
EW.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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Armed with her signature razor-sharp wit and deadpan charm, Wednesday is also plunged into a new bone-chilling supernatural mystery.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Like other games in the series, Persona 5 Royal follows a group of teens up against a supernatural threat.—
Oliver Brandt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Mystical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mystical. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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