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Recent Examples of nirvana Down one road lay the Hayekian nirvana of fully privatized money and the pricing of everything; down the other lay the dream of a more equal world built on comprehensive reform of the international economic system. Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2022 While Hindus associate the holiday with Lord Ramas return from exile, Jains recognize it as the day Lord Mahavira reached a state of nirvana (Moksha), per BBC. Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 22 Oct. 2022 Devotees of Brother’s P-Touch label maker know that having one — and using it to uniformly label everything in the house — is like reaching organizational nirvana. Alesandra Dubin, Woman's Day, 18 Sep. 2022 Gibbs’ road to athletic nirvana did not appear likely based on his family history. Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 31 Aug. 2022 See All Example Sentences for nirvana
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Noun
  • Doing so will require the triggering of another release clause, though this one is a lot more expensive at €58 million and won’t be as straightforward to raise for a club still recovering from a financial crisis that pushed it to the brink of oblivion earlier this decade.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • Attacking the concepts with an edge of Black Mirror, youthful characters forgo the stress of a body altogether and upload themselves to a neural computer network, seek oblivion from sentient boulders.
    Michelle Tea June 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Musk, Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg are all fans of Iain Banks’s Culture series, which imagines a post-scarcity socialist utopia where all of our measly 21st-century problems have been solved by technological advancement.
    Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 21 June 2025
  • But as three generations of the beautiful, distinguished Sinclair family converge on their private summer utopia, no one is talking – not even The Liars, Cadence's childhood best friends.
    Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • In a system built on civilian oversight of military and diplomatic power, ignorance becomes a liability.
    Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
  • Commendably, both men filled their work with regular professions of their own ignorance.
    Lewis Hyde, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • On this 12-mile stretch of undeveloped paradise, wild horses and 4x4s reign.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 5 July 2025
  • Which is not to say that the city was a racial paradise.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • As a dissident, Limonov didn’t find New York to be some immigrant heaven, but rather a cutthroat town where the Upper West Side socialites were as disaffected and atrophied as Politburo members.
    Ed Simon June 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
  • While there will be emphasis on families and domestic lives, the dazzling configurations taking place in the heavens above could even mark a period where past-life connections return to bring potential radiance and good news.
    Kyle Thomas, People.com, 22 June 2025

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“Nirvana.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nirvana. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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