TRANSCENDENCY Synonyms: 83 Similar and Opposite Words

transcendency

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Recent Examples of transcendency This was not the Times’ first flirtation with chocolate chip cookie transcendency. — Sharyn Jackson, Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020

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Noun

But, for at least some of her characters, their moment of transcendence retains its power.

— Robert Rubsam, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026
On the other, its smoothness and seamlessness generate an aura of spiritual transcendence, something not unaffiliated with the Angeleno ethos.

— Katy Barkan, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of transcendence

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Such headwinds are unfamiliar for Reform, which had previously been in the ascendancy, leading national opinion polls and enjoying historic gains in local elections.

— Reagan Yip, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
Their joint ascendancy in this decade has coincided with a change introduced for this tournament that increased their chances of meeting.

— Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 14 July 2026

Definition of ascendancy

Noun

Teaching students to actively hunt for hallucinations, logical gaps and hidden biases in AI drafts transforms them from passive consumers into critical editors—building deep domain mastery by evaluating why an AI answer fails.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
By exhibiting and then dominating them in the arena, Rome was symbolically asserting its mastery over nature itself.

— Roberto Prieto, Variety, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of mastery

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This moment was a turning point for ULA and the start of a long slide from dominance for the Boeing-Lockheed venture.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026
The riotous 640-page door stopper grapples with homophobia then and now, the lingering specter of colonialism, the tumult of the AIDS crisis, and frameworks of power that demand dominance or submission.

— Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of dominance

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Many Germans had believed their country had developed an immunity to nationalism and assertions of racial superiority after confronting the horrors of its Nazi past through education and laws to outlaw persecution.

— Kirsten Grieshaber, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2026
Only truly sophisticated taste, in this code, grasps the superiority of deprivation over the more ethnic notions of actual comfort and good food.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026

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