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Recent Examples of mythological
But while symbols for some of Space Force's mission areas will be similarly borrowed from real-life animals, others are more mythological in nature, Saltzman said.
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Brett Tingley, Space.com, 15 Dec. 2025
Phaethon, a reference to the Greek mythological figure who drove the Sun-god Helios' chariot, because its orbit brings it into close proximity to the Sun.
—Connor Greene, Time, 11 Dec. 2025
Perhaps channeling her art through this mythological being was a necessary step for Becerra, who underwent two intense health scares over the last few years.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2025
When archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann found the remains of Troy in the 1870s, it was assumed that the site had been purely mythological.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 18 Nov. 2025
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Brett Tingley, Space.com, 15 Dec. 2025
Phaethon, a reference to the Greek mythological figure who drove the Sun-god Helios' chariot, because its orbit brings it into close proximity to the Sun.
—Connor Greene, Time, 11 Dec. 2025
Perhaps channeling her art through this mythological being was a necessary step for Becerra, who underwent two intense health scares over the last few years.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2025
When archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann found the remains of Troy in the 1870s, it was assumed that the site had been purely mythological.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 18 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mythological
Adjective
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Maybe this skin-crawler is a creepy, allegorical drama about delusional paranoia.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
9 Jan. 2026
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In Baraka’s play, Clay and Lula serve as allegorical representations of Black assimilation and white supremacy, respectively.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
3 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Under the noonday sun while fishing, or stealing light from the full moon, the point of his pencil traced the imaginary movements of the washers, threads, coil springs, cylinders, bolts, and screws that had long enriched the workings of his mind.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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Torgashev dropped an imaginary microphone for his ending pose, then doubled over before dropping to a knee as the crowd rose to its feet.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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For a nostalgia-stirring vacation with friends, Sarasota—a fanciful town on Florida’s scenic Suncoast—has easy appeal for everyone.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
13 Jan. 2026
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The city’s storefront followers all saw the show as intense, non-linear, fanciful, Chicago-style experimentation with the de rigeur amount of nudity and a darkly comic soul, but no hope whatsoever of expanding its reach beyond the Midwest theatrical shoebox of its birth.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
9 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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As the voice of Rumi, Ejae performed the lead vocals of all the songs for HUNTR/X, the movie's fictional k-pop girl group that moonlights as demon hunters who protect the world from soul-sucking monsters.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Jan. 2026
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In the fictional story of the Shakespeare family, their family tragedy leads Shakespeare to write Hamlet.—
Yamillah Hurtado,
PEOPLE,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Mythological.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mythological. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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