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Adjective
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This may sound blasphemous for a Fixed Earth sign, but spontaneity works best sometimes.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
23 Aug. 2025 -
There was certainly a time when the notion of the Baltimore Orioles getting rid of Adley Rutschman would have been blasphemous.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Mentorship, Humor And Queer Resilience Reigns structures Outliving Michael as a series of vignettes, each poem distilling a memory that compounds to build a complete portrait of Church, a man of emotional depth and irreverent charm.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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The submissions tell a story of Massachusetts that is equal parts reverent and irreverent, with Bay Staters leaning on history while having fun with their future.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Any extra trimmings would land somewhere between glib and sacrilegious.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
3 Sep. 2025
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Drinking a Bloody Mary at night just feels wrong and confusing, sacrilegious even, which is hilarious because everything else goes.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
30 Aug. 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
Adjective
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Then, a task-agnostic system called AnyPos translates that knowledge into motor commands for robots.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Its cloud-agnostic platform enables enterprises to host and manage AI models from different cloud providers in a single, centralized environment, making deployment and scaling much more seamless.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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These wooden churches were once common across the country, built when Christianity was still new and pagan traditions lingered.—
David Nikel,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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Previous defense motions have also claimed that German and Williams' murders were actually a ritual sacrifice committed by Odinists, members of a pagan religion linked with White nationalism, per CNN.—
Jordana Comiter,
People.com,
5 Aug. 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
Adjective
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There will be many users who don't like the idea of an AI startup or an unholy alliance of venture capital firms owning Chrome.—
Ryan Whitwam,
ArsTechnica,
12 Aug. 2025
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Even Scott’s not-quite-prequels, Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, were built on the same bones: humans, isolated and vulnerable, picked off one by one by creatures eager to violate their bodies in unholy ways.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
12 Aug. 2025
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“Profanatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/profanatory. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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