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Recent Examples of unspiritual
When the 1990s brought an emphasis on art being viewed as unspiritual, unpoetical, socioeconomic evidence, the perspective on Cole changed.
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Holland Cotter, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2018
Holland Cotter, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unspiritual
Adjective
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Countless culinary experiences that showcase both local and worldly flavors.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Charlotte Observer,
11 May 2026
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The giant operating room, with its other-worldly machines and too many doctors and nurses to count, lay on the other side of two glass doors, and next to me seven more nurses and doctors were scrubbing in.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 May 2026
Adjective
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As earthly circles of hell go, modern-day Newark is in an altogether different, gentler category from post-WWII Leningrad.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
13 May 2026
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Divinity above, earthly pleasures below.—
Ligaya Mishan,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
Adjective
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The girls follow his trail of tears to Divine (Erika Alexander), a charismatic preacher still in the carnal thrall of her time with their father.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
15 May 2026
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An intense, carnal need takes over mid-bite into a Loli Farms chicken leg.—
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Superhero movies, once a Teflon genre, have become worryingly earthbound at the box office.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
13 May 2026
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Both Anduril and Isomorphic are deeply technical companies that have risen at a time when advances in AI have not only rendered the impossible possible, but made moonshots seem earthbound.—
Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
13 May 2026
Adjective
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The leaders of the future may need to be AI fluent, not just AI aware, using agentic-first approaches in automating mundane tasks, and, most importantly, focusing on agile problem resolution.—
Ethan Stone,
USA Today,
18 May 2026
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Demna has made these mundane character studies a cornerstone of his creative vision, and this Gucci show in New York was no exception.—
José Criales-Unzueta,
Vanity Fair,
17 May 2026
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Imperfect fleshly reality occupies the stage, the region where bones crack and wounds suppurate, schlumpy humans fall for each other, and jealousy roams murderously free.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
11 Mar. 2026
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Murderbot has been realized in fleshly form in the sculpted body of Alexander Skarsgård, on the new Apple TV+ series of the same name.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
13 June 2025
Adjective
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In fact, infants start out being able to process multiple temporal patterns equally well, but specialize across the first year in the patterns common to their culture, losing the ability to process others.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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Even when Andy starts spiraling into discussions about cosmic turtles, destiny, and temporal manipulation, his big sister anchors that playful back-and-forth in serious creative rigor.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
19 May 2026
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But a higher-education system that can no longer keep them safe from the vulgarities of the market, the siren song of cultural warfare, or the decidedly sublunary work of furnishing political propaganda is one that has not just failed the humanities, but failed entirely.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2026
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Our attention plunges in while the body remains firmly rooted in the sublunary world.—
Meghan O'Gieblyn,
WIRED,
16 Aug. 2023
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“Unspiritual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unspiritual. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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