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Recent Examples of numinous Starting with Neptune retrograde in Aries on July 4, this transit will likely create confusion in your love life as the numinous fog surrounds your romantic and creative endeavors. Valerie Mesa, People.com, 8 July 2025 Much is achieved through the simple act of exhibiting the numinous paintings of Varo and those of other women such as Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning, who the misogynist Breton counted as muses rather than artists. Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025 The following day, one of the most exciting moments of the year arrives, as numinous planet Neptune enters your sign for the first time since the late 1800s. Nina Kahn, StyleCaster, 24 Feb. 2025 Intuitive communication deepens a bond as love planet Venus harmonizes with numinous Neptune. USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for numinous
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Adjective
  • At the same time, certain ‘magic numbers’ of nucleons, whether protons or neutrons, lead to particularly stable configurations.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
  • If all Democrats sign the petition, only six Republicans are needed to reach the magic number.
    Lauren Peller, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • One such factor might be the user awareness of AI, gauged by their literacy about AI and the assigning of a magical aura to AI.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The sound of K-pop also hums through the other magical elements of the film, especially HUNTR/X’s weapons and the strange familiars that Rumi and Ji-noo (Ahn Hyo-seop) use to communicate with each other across enemy lines.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Numinous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/numinous. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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