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Recent Examples of pacific Choose between two rich colors: pacific blue or yarrow gold. Sydney Gore, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2024 Because roughly half the population there are Seventh-Day Adventists, and their interpretation of the Bible in regards to eating animals is a pacific one. Danny Palumbo / The Takeout, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2024 Mexico's pacific coast will be the first location in continental North America to experience totality, which will occur at about 11:07 a.m. PDT, according to NASA. Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2024 Reports of her arrival in Nevada surfaced around noon pacific time. Zoe G Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for pacific
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pacific
Adjective
  • Together, these two pros deliver a Sunday to-do list that will hopefully create a more peaceful and efficient week ahead.
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 27 Apr. 2025
  • The meeting lasted about 15 minutes inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, where Francis often preached the need for a peaceful end to the war, just before Trump and Zelenskyy took their seats at the outdoor funeral service.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The move was notable, in part, because Harvard had spent the past year in a cautious, conciliatory crouch to try to ward off just that kind of scrutiny.
    Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The message had a conciliatory tone compared with that of his boss, President Trump, who has vowed to take back the Panama Canal from Panama.
    Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Before the Japanese government released its national security strategy policy guidelines in 2022, Japan's defense budget was limited to only 1 percent of GDP, or 5 trillion yen ($35 billion), by its constitution, which renounces war and puts the country on a pacifist course.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Meanwhile, a visiting company of the pacifist fake Irish Travelers called the Tuatha’an have sought refuge in the village too, and Perrin’s counting on these non-fighters to run the town’s children to safety.
    Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But at its core, Wrexham’s rapid rise owes mostly to club stumbling into a relationship with a benevolent benefactor with far more resources than most of its now-former fourth- and fifth-division peers.
    Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • It's long been the stuff of science fiction: humans achieving immortality by uploading their consciousness into a silicon virtual paradise, ruled over by a benevolent super-intelligent AI.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • There were about 140,000 Jews in the Netherlands, a neutral country, when the Germans arrived in 1940.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 3 May 2025
  • For one, the upstart Wings and dynastic Las Vegas Aces go to work at a particularly cool neutral site — Purcell Pavilion, home of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, cathedral to Muffet McGraw’s national championship program.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 3 May 2025
Adjective
  • Their look and feeling are soothing and sublime, thanks to the deft hand of noted Spanish interior designer Pilar García-Nieto.
    Ann Abel, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Some models serve purely to create a soothing ambiance, acting as night lights for children, whereas others can be educational tools with accurate renderings of the night sky indoors.
    Tantse Walter, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Harrell describes her daughter as a kind, sweet child who always sought to do what was right.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • What Lee liked best about playing Go-tak, a seemingly tough guy with a kind heart, was bonding with his fellow actors.
    Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Follow discipline with a calm, comforting debrief Debriefing conversations should be gentle and happen after everyone has calmed down.
    Caroline Fleck, Contributor, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2025
  • This square isn’t necessarily gentle, but these big, bold and potentially unsettling shifts are ultimately necessary for our growth.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 22 Apr. 2025

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“Pacific.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pacific. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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