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While paella has traveled far beyond Spain’s borders—often in versions that are blasphemous to the locals—this region is its ancestral home.—
Sofia Perez,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025 -
In Europe, the painting was received as a blasphemous shock.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
11 July 2025
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The New York Post is launching a California tabloid newspaper and news site next year, the company announced Monday, bringing an assertive, irreverent and conservative-friendly fixture of the Big Apple media landscape to the Golden State.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
5 Aug. 2025
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Not Thirst Traps collection emerges at the intersection of trendy fashion statements, Y2K style and online culture, with T-shirts embossed with irreverent, cheeky turns of phrase.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
5 Aug. 2025
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Alfie, who’s either being willfully obtuse or radically uncompromising, sees nothing sacrilegious in Wilde’s one-act tragedy.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2025
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Surely, there’s something utterly sacrilegious about laughing hysterically at actors giving God the middle finger.—
Michael James Rocha,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 June 2025
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The only true dictionary is the lost one, the dictionary of the language that perished when the impious tower was built: the original language, God’s language.—
Mariana Dimópulos,
Harpers Magazine,
26 Mar. 2025
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This game must have seemed profane to the Greeks, or even impious.—
Simone Weil,
Harper's Magazine,
2 July 2024
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But over the past century, many quantum physicists have grown increasingly dissatisfied with the agnostic, vague and sometimes self-contradictory pronouncements of the Copenhagenists.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Aug. 2025
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The blue-toned colorways are style agnostic, perfect for traditional, farmhouse, and contemporary spaces alike.—
Kate McGregor,
Architectural Digest,
6 Aug. 2025
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This attempt to turn back the clock included the purging of Christian texts from schools, the conversion of Christian churches into pagan temples, and religious persecution as it had been practiced in centuries past.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
22 Feb. 2025
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As de Kort tells Live Science, these treasures were buried in several deposits that might have constituted offerings to a pagan god—possibly Wodan, the Germanic persona of the Norse god Odin.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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There are several other unfortunate factors in this ungodly situation.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Aug. 2025
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In the height of World War II, Johann Schmidt uncovers a weapon called the Tesseract and is keen on unlocking its ungodly powers.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 July 2025
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Photo-illustration: WIRED Staff; Getty Images The unholy alliance between Silicon Valley and the Republican Party is no longer new.—
Jake Lahut,
Wired News,
23 July 2025
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Black Sabbath was so dark, so unholy, that the band’s songs inspired murders and self-harm.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
22 July 2025
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“Profanatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/profanatory. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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