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Recent Examples of scriptural
The play allows for heady scriptural dialogue, which speaks to Weinstein and Rafaeli’s faith in the audience’s intelligence.
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Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
The rabbi fills it with scriptural exegesis in a mixture of Russian, Hebrew, and English.
—David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
Even as Christians moved away from Judaism, the evangelists continued to work within a Jewish scriptural tradition that expected later writers to build on earlier ones.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2025
The soft-brain theory has been pretty thoroughly debunked, but scriptural notions have proved harder to dismiss.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
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Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
The rabbi fills it with scriptural exegesis in a mixture of Russian, Hebrew, and English.
—David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
Even as Christians moved away from Judaism, the evangelists continued to work within a Jewish scriptural tradition that expected later writers to build on earlier ones.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2025
The soft-brain theory has been pretty thoroughly debunked, but scriptural notions have proved harder to dismiss.
—Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scriptural
biblical
Adjective
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The facility was built with near biblical speed, completed in only eight days, and from its earliest days, detainees complained of toilets that don’t flush, bugs and leaky tents.—
Ana Ceballos,
Miami Herald,
19 Aug. 2025
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La Divina Commedia The time has come for yet another gritty action game inspired by the centuries-old biblical poem.—
Jordan Minor,
PC Magazine,
19 Aug. 2025
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“Scriptural.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scriptural. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.
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