Sheol

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Recent Examples of Sheol The soul is the same one that ancient Egyptians called the ka, or that God promises the psalmist will be rescued from Sheol, or that lay dormant in the minds of so many contemporary American readers, waiting for the right sound to set it free. Christian Wiman, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
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Noun
  • Levon must pose as a drug dealer and infiltrate himself into this Chicago underworld populated by numerous stereotypical Russian Mafia types led by crime lord Wolo Kolisnyk (Jason Flemyng), and featuring his loose cannon son Dimi (Maximilian Osinski).
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The problem’s in the criminal underworld for people who are not recognised as being from a specific community.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But the film comes into its own at almost exactly an hour, as The Man begins the ritual and The Surrender threatens to go full occult gonzo, complete with a charmed circle and a bleak netherworld resembling Lucio Fulci’s 1981 splatter epic The Beyond.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Great vacations exist in a temporal netherworld, unmoored from the reality of daily life.
    Sofia Perez, Travel + Leisure, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Appropriately for a fantasy of perdition suited to this nihilistic century, the logic of eternal punishment remains opaque.
    Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The perdition market did not respond to Newsweek's request for comment asking if an announcement like FanDuel's would follow.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025

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“Sheol.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Sheol. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.

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