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Recent Examples of transcendence As for transcendence, there’s a set of scenes when one character unexpectedly adorns red while another lines of blue. Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 27 Aug. 2025 Magic in the sense of transcendence of this ordinary life into another realm. William Robin, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2025 Nudy’s work doesn’t promise conceptual transcendence. Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2025 As the container of our culture’s internal contradictions, including dogmatism and pragmatism, individualism and communitarianism, and Biercean indignation and Emersonian transcendence, hardcore is as American as atomic warfare. Chris R. Morgan, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for transcendence
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Noun
  • With these findings, sodium-ion batteries may finally challenge lithium-ion dominance while also contributing to cleaner energy solutions and addressing freshwater scarcity.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
  • So, the defense doubled down on dominance in crunch time.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The United States maintains overwhelming technological superiority but with increasingly unpredictable commitments.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
  • By dispelling the myth of SPS superiority, this study opens the door to more flexible and cost-effective production strategies, accelerating the path toward safer, high-performance solid-state batteries, according to the study.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Known for its rich, dark green coloring and full silhouette, this tree is native to the Appalachian Mountains and has the distinction of being the type of tree most often used as the official White House Christmas tree.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 20 Oct. 2025
  • During lean times like the Great Depression when ingredients were scarce and nothing went to waste, this distinction mattered.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The weekly climb to high school cross country supremacy continues Friday and Saturday with the Orange County Championships.
    Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Still, their progress, made easier by supremacy in the air, appeared inexorable.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Created by law in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the bureau developed a reputation as an aggressive enforcer of fair-lending and consumer-protection laws.
    Andy Kroll, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Unconcerned by matters like health insurance and 401(k) contributions, her presence burnishes the reputation of the magazine as an arbiter of good taste.
    New York Times, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The twin bases of the American experiment in political pluralism—the fable about the United States as a land of immigrants and the reality of unchallenged global primacy—are simultaneously crumbling.
    Pankaj Mishra, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Both Democratic and Republican leaders, from Nancy Pelosi to Mitch McConnell, agree that the United States should pursue primacy.
    David C. Kang, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2025

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“Transcendence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transcendence. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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