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as in beatific
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as in cherubic
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Recent Examples of angelic
Dick Page left models’ skin at Michael Kors so un-glammed that visible undereye circles appeared truly angelic.
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Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2026
Football is the framing device for this romantic fantasy about LA Rams quarterback Joe Pendleton, who wins the starting job, then dies in a traffic accident while biking home (thanks to angelic error).
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
As jealousy, greed, and paranoia take hold, the group is torn apart by their inner demons, threatening to turn their angelic encounter into a descent into hell.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2026
The disparate components are bound by hefty percussion hits and an angelic vocal sample that sounds like trying to remember a distant memory.
—Rae-Aila Crumble, Pitchfork, 26 Jan. 2026
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Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2026
Football is the framing device for this romantic fantasy about LA Rams quarterback Joe Pendleton, who wins the starting job, then dies in a traffic accident while biking home (thanks to angelic error).
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
As jealousy, greed, and paranoia take hold, the group is torn apart by their inner demons, threatening to turn their angelic encounter into a descent into hell.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2026
The disparate components are bound by hefty percussion hits and an angelic vocal sample that sounds like trying to remember a distant memory.
—Rae-Aila Crumble, Pitchfork, 26 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for angelic
Adjective
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From the world’s vantage point, Los Angeles can look like a place that glides serenely along beneath a beatific sun.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Mar. 2026
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That sincere belief in the serenity of golfing is affirmed by the beatific animation.—
Kambole Campbell,
Vulture,
9 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Xiao is also a fan of the Japanese manga and anime series Chiikawa, whose cherubic, hamster-like cartoon character is popular among Chinese.—
Chan Ho-Him,
Fortune,
10 Feb. 2026
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The images of Etan’s smiling, cherubic face were widely distributed during the yearslong search for the blond, blue-eyed boy.—
Ray Sanchez,
CNN Money,
29 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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With their blissful harmonies and flowery, mystical lyrics, the Texas duo embodied soft rock, ushering in the genre at the dawn of the Seventies with a gentle nudge and a tip of Seals’ signature newsboy cap.—
Angie Martoccio,
Rolling Stone,
26 Mar. 2026
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Brought to market by Susan Bradley, the blissful oasis promises fresh, airy living spaces and a private boat house with a party deck, which is a rare treasure since they are no longer permitted to be built on this lake.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
15 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Helberg, cast as inventor Martin Phister, opens up about their characters who are trying to be virtuous and end up getting corrupted instead.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
21 Mar. 2026
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But cowardice isn’t the mark of a virtuous university, either.—
Jonathan Zimmerman,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Mar. 2026
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And a joyous Tatis has most often been a transcendent Tatis.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Mar. 2026
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The set design brought the film’s Club Juke to life in a chilling recreation of the transcendent scene where the history of Black music and dance springs to life all at once.—
Althea Legaspi,
Rolling Stone,
15 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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That shift in language away from moral framing around food reflects something practitioners and researchers have long advocated for, and consumers are now arriving there on their own terms.—
Allison Palmer,
Miami Herald,
24 Mar. 2026
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But many seemingly urbane texts also benefited from the intellectual and moral coarseness of their times.—
Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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To the victim, a transcendental thief is still a thief.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
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There are some proactive stress management techniques that the ACC endorses, including transcendental meditation and yoga.—
Mara Gordon,
NPR,
17 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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From tabletop experiments to atomic clocks to celestial mechanics to gravitational lensing to the formation of the great cosmic web, its success rate is 100%.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
24 Mar. 2026
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Scientists have found a full set of life-building molecules in a nearly pristine asteroid sample, and the discovery suggests that the necessary ingredients to kick-start the evolution of life on Earth may have come from a celestial-body delivery.—
Devika Rao,
TheWeek,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Angelic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/angelic. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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