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The local doctor was really just a helpless conjurer, while the lazy village priest got endowed with unwarranted godlike powers.—James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024 The show, in fact, paints Saint Laurent as a godlike figure, first on the cover of a magazine and then at one of his fashion shows.—José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 17 July 2024 In a field full of beliefs that range from creating godlike entities to the destruction of humanity in sci-fi scenarios or wasteful environmental harm, battle lines have already been drawn, and AI is already deeply political.—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 17 July 2024 The Targaryen dragons symbolized their godlike status as rulers for over a hundred years, so killing a symbol of their great power is a bad sign to the already starving populace.—Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 15 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for godlike
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of godlike was
before the 12th century
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