as in sacred
set apart or worthy of veneration by association with God
sacral laws that have been passed down for generations
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Recent Examples of sacral
Deal turned to alternative therapies, seeking help from both a chiropractor and a cranial sacral massage therapist.
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Ashley Vega, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025
The score varies from sacral pieces to energetic compositions, evoking tension and sensitivity.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2024
The Spa The pink and white Astor Salon & Spa offers facials, massages, body treatments, reflexology, reiki, and cranial sacral therapy sessions.
—Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 19 July 2024
Cooper Jones has sacral agenesis, a congenital condition that affects the lower spine.
—Longreads, 3 May 2024
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Ashley Vega, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025
The score varies from sacral pieces to energetic compositions, evoking tension and sensitivity.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2024
The Spa The pink and white Astor Salon & Spa offers facials, massages, body treatments, reflexology, reiki, and cranial sacral therapy sessions.
—Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 19 July 2024
Cooper Jones has sacral agenesis, a congenital condition that affects the lower spine.
—Longreads, 3 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sacral
Adjective
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The detention facility threatens land that is not only environmentally sensitive but sacred to our people.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Aug. 2025
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Then there’s the viewer’s sacred and often fragile relationship with great movies and TV shows.—
Sam Reed,
Glamour,
7 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The structure took a more holy turn in 1954, when a 3607 Pennsylvania was purchased by a church.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
7 Aug. 2025
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In the drive to make PCI Express 5.0 SSDs usable on a wider range of platforms, the holy grail for drive manufacturers would seem to be effective thermal management without sacrificing performance.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
6 Aug. 2025
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The priestly fraternity, named in honor of the anti-modernist Pope St. Pius X, was founded in 1970 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre as a response to liturgical reforms made in the Second Vatican Council (also known as Vatican II).—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
14 Aug. 2025
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The Boise Oñati Dancers will perform a sacred liturgical dance.—
Shannon Tyler,
Idaho Statesman,
1 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Fast forward to today—on the heels of a decades-long conservative family values movement—and that very same clinic is now being vilified by conservative religious leaders.—
Time,
Time,
7 Aug. 2025
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Broward County synagogues also are facing a religious school teacher shortage.—
Lois K. Solomon,
Sun Sentinel,
6 Aug. 2025
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“Sacral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sacral. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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