the gods
plural noun
British
: the highest and cheapest seats in a theater
The people in the gods can be the hardest to please.
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With the villain's plan being to erase the gods from every culture throughout history, it was set up to be a perfect playground to explore how inexorably tied to the stories of gods humanity has always been and how severing that tie would change the face of our entire existence.
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Ryan Woodrow, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025
Jumba wearing a fake mustache and sunglasses, Pleakley in various wigs with their face beat for the gods.
—James Factora, Them., 8 May 2025
Some of them, for example, instruct viewers to make offerings to the gods.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2025
Entities magically endowed with life by the gods are not a rarity in Greek myth.
—Sofia Giannuzzi, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2025
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Ryan Woodrow, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025
Jumba wearing a fake mustache and sunglasses, Pleakley in various wigs with their face beat for the gods.
—James Factora, Them., 8 May 2025
Some of them, for example, instruct viewers to make offerings to the gods.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2025
Entities magically endowed with life by the gods are not a rarity in Greek myth.
—Sofia Giannuzzi, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for the gods
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“The gods.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20gods. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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