as in utopia
an often imaginary place or state of utter perfection and happiness
finally realized that the promised land doesn't exist
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Recent Examples of promised land
Last spring, there were high hopes, not only for the upcoming season, but for an invitation to the Big 12, football promised land.
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Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 21 Apr. 2024
Hunter was promised land to be granted to individual Indian settlers but was unsuccessful in getting a tribal grant with the right of self-government.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 25 Mar. 2024
California has been a beacon, a destination, a paradise and promised land ever since its headlong expansion in a rush of gold fever.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024
This Luna weighted blanket is the direct pathway to that promised land for many users.
—Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2023
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Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 21 Apr. 2024
Hunter was promised land to be granted to individual Indian settlers but was unsuccessful in getting a tribal grant with the right of self-government.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 25 Mar. 2024
California has been a beacon, a destination, a paradise and promised land ever since its headlong expansion in a rush of gold fever.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024
This Luna weighted blanket is the direct pathway to that promised land for many users.
—Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for promised land
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Initially a beachy utopia where the children run free among nature, things become increasingly savage as help appears to be ever further away.—
Connor Sturges,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 May 2026
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Just about 60 years later, artists Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro—alongside a group of their students—brought one vision of feminist utopia into the real world.—
Marissa Lorusso,
Pitchfork,
3 May 2026
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But their apparent domestic paradise was thrown into disarray when Betty began to suspect her husband was having an affair with his younger office assistant, Linda Kolkena.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2026
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Mauritius looks like paradise to many—and its government can afford to be picky about the people who want to make the island their home.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
6 May 2026
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Warnings, laments, and odes to renewal were expressed pictorially as dying days under bleeding heavens, belching volcanoes, proud icebergs, lavish rainbows amid spangling, mist-suffusing sunlight and dawns of peace and hope.—
Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Gaga and Doechii, a match made in fashion heaven, and two style students who clearly did their homework for this assignment.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Promised land.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/promised%20land. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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