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as in metaphysical
not composed of matter
a staunch skeptic and realist, he scoffs at the very notion of ghosts and other spiritual entities
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as in religious
of, relating to, or used in the practice or worship services of a religion
spiritual songs that have been sung by generations of worshippers
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as in hymn
a religious song
sang a spiritual at the funeral
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Recent Examples of spiritual
Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
All of these things have to do with everyday life and with cultural life and with spiritual life in Native peoples' communities.
—Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2024
Rushing’s main goal was to make the spirituals legible to today’s youth.
—Steven Vargas, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2024
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More than a therapeutic pool, this remarkable wellness feature symbolizes spiritual rebirth.
—Bianca Salonga, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
All of these things have to do with everyday life and with cultural life and with spiritual life in Native peoples' communities.
—Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
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Burning of incense: Matter is symbolically transformed into the spiritual.
—Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2024
Rushing’s main goal was to make the spirituals legible to today’s youth.
—Steven Vargas, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2024
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There is a powerful sense of Johnson reaching for new and bolder challenges in his ongoing dialogues with reality and metaphysical thinking, material and idea.Calvin Tomkins, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Although the machines’ inventor is concerned with metaphysical questions—do intelligent robots disprove God’s existence?—his engineer son sees the potential for major profit and manufactures robots for sale around the world, with disastrous results.Elvia Wilk, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2024
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Kevin Theriot, senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents the plaintiffs, applauded the ruling as a significant step in protecting religious organizations’ autonomy.Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Jan. 2025
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My father tended to avoid these discussions, regarding them as reminders of a time of religious division best left to rust away alongside other ugly remnants of the war.Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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The centennial of Baldwin’s birth, this past year, saw no shortage of hymns, modulating the key to minor and rendering the arrangements slightly discordant.Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2024
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The Salvation Army led hymns under the supervision of the jail chaplain.Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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Like the kamikaze pilots in the same story, whose deaths lost their sacred meaning once Emperor Hirohito renounced his divinity after the war, the plotters in 1936 worshipped not a man but a deity.Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
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Now, entering the start of a new Trump administration, our political and economic realities have changed, and so has New York’s sacred task.John Raskin, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2025
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By the time Newcastle made their return to the Champions League and the anthem blared out at the San Siro, in a cacophony of noise and emotion, everyone briefly became Murphy.George Caulkin, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
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Like Jones himself, who produced the record, the perennial Halloween anthem was a multi-media affair, encompassing music, film, television, dance and fashion.Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 4 Jan. 2025
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Her career spans five decades and includes movies such as True Romance and Ed Wood, and her TV credits include playing the psychic Allison DuBois on the long-running procedural Medium and also starring in HBO's Boardwalk Empire.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
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Carlson sees such in-between places as the psychic origin of all poetry and music.Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 6 Jan. 2025
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He is known as the patron saint of bookbinders and wrote an illustrative book of psalms while at the monastery of St. Finnian, according to Discovering Ireland.Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 15 Mar. 2024
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Inside the nave, choirs sang psalms, and the cathedral’s mighty organ thundered back to life in a triumphant interplay of melodies.Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
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And of course, possibly supernatural happenings take place, in addition to some grimy and gritty murders.Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 5 Jan. 2025
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The film’s blend of humor, supernatural elements and folklore struck a chord with audiences, paving the way for further exploration of the genre.Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 Jan. 2025
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“Spiritual.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiritual. Accessed 11 Jan. 2025.
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