as in dominance
the fact or state of being above others in rank or importance
makes a case for the transcendence of Louis Armstrong's contributions to the field of jazz
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Recent Examples of transcendence
Max Olson is writer-director and video artist based in New York & Los Angeles whose work aims to hold up a mirror to the restrictive structures of our world with an eye toward transcendence.
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 10 Nov. 2025
Far from contemporary pop, each note and lyric demands your full attention; the reward is transcendence, even as the material nudges you to annotate like a philosophy student with a highlighter in hand.
—Thania Garcia, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
Sacrifice and transcendence As the bomb nears its target, Mitsuki makes her choice.
—Jp Mangalindan, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
So much of her work is about love transcending class, not in a cheesy way, but precisely because of the importance of that transcendence.
—Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 10 Nov. 2025
Far from contemporary pop, each note and lyric demands your full attention; the reward is transcendence, even as the material nudges you to annotate like a philosophy student with a highlighter in hand.
—Thania Garcia, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
Sacrifice and transcendence As the bomb nears its target, Mitsuki makes her choice.
—Jp Mangalindan, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
So much of her work is about love transcending class, not in a cheesy way, but precisely because of the importance of that transcendence.
—Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transcendence
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But the center re-established his dominance against the smaller Warriors on Monday, finishing with 15 points and 17 rebounds while serving as a significant deterrent on the defensive interior.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
27 Jan. 2026
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The English striker has set all kinds of scoring records in the German top division and has spearheaded a Bayern Munich team that is establishing a new level of dominance.—
Graham Ruthven,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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His team did not take the opportunity to fully exert their superiority against weakened opponents.—
Amy Lawrence,
New York Times,
15 Jan. 2026
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Given their overall superiority in data transfer speeds and load times, SSD is generally the superior choice, though HDDs are just fine for less sensitive data.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Jan. 2026
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The distinction is semantic, not economic.—
James Broughel,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Yeah, so the law has this long-standing distinction between what the lawyers would call prospective relief and retrospective relief.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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Trump has taken this tradition to its logical extreme by exempting from legal consequences his supporters and those following his instructions—seeming to assert his supremacy over not just federal but state laws, which exceeds even the wide powers conferred by the Constitution.—
Bernadette Meyler,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Conference supremacy After the SEC's 10 ranked teams, the Big Ten is next with seven.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Jan. 2026
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Over time, these micro-touchpoints compound into reputation capital.—
Chris Lipp,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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But her thickened skin, along with her toughened reputation, felt supple now.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Our cities and neighborhoods have already sacrificed so much of their humanity to the primacy of the automobile.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Jan. 2026
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Who knows the reasons for this choice—band dynamics are a psychedelic kaleidoscope of competing imperatives—but whatever the case, by 2003’s Dear Catastrophe Waitress, Murdoch had been largely restored to creative primacy, on both that record and The Life Pursuit.—
Elizabeth Nelson,
Pitchfork,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Transcendence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transcendence. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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