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as in beatific
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as in cherubic
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Recent Examples of angelic
With her backless white Stella McCartney gown, halo of curls and tiara, Kate Hudson looked positively angelic at the 2003 Met Gala.
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Alex Apatoff, PEOPLE, 2 May 2026
For women over 40 looking for the perfect bold crimson or angelic pink, the color payoff is professional-grade, delivering long-lasting saturation that remains nondrying throughout the day.
—Micaela English, Glamour, 30 Apr. 2026
The difficulty is creating space for a righteous character’s wisdom without reducing them to an angelic caricature.
—Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
All the while, Gaga played out a loose storyline about her internal battle between her angelic and demonic sides.
—Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2026
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Alex Apatoff, PEOPLE, 2 May 2026
For women over 40 looking for the perfect bold crimson or angelic pink, the color payoff is professional-grade, delivering long-lasting saturation that remains nondrying throughout the day.
—Micaela English, Glamour, 30 Apr. 2026
The difficulty is creating space for a righteous character’s wisdom without reducing them to an angelic caricature.
—Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
All the while, Gaga played out a loose storyline about her internal battle between her angelic and demonic sides.
—Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 10 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for angelic
Adjective
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Her ghost of a smile should be parsed as beatific rapture.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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King is known for creating beatific dances in collaboration with master musicians, pieces that feature the artists on stage in San Francisco (though LINES Ballet often performs on tour with a recorded score).—
Andrew Gilbert,
Mercury News,
6 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Whereas its predecessor could take forever between seasons, losing nothing but its child stars’ cherubic looks, the new show has no such luxury.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
31 May 2026
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Burke’s heroine, Natalie, is a trad wife with a large internet following, fundamentalist Christian convictions, a brood of cherubic children, a working farm, and a penchant for handcrafting items that could be purchased at the drugstore.—
Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
29 May 2026
Adjective
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The feeling of those blissful days is quite different now.—
Dawn White,
CBS News,
28 May 2026
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To learn more about the blissful alchemy of Starbucks Oleato™ beverages, visit here today.—
Condé Nast Traveler,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 May 2026
Adjective
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Levenson highlights how the subtext of this attitude was that contracting a highly infectious disease was divine punishment for sin and that the only way to avoid disease was to live a virtuous life.—
Diana Gitig,
ArsTechnica,
30 May 2026
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The good news is that because character comprises a set of virtuous habits, it can be developed and strengthened.—
Mary Crossan,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
Adjective
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Offensive coordinator Andrew Janocko added that Bowers can be a transcendent player for his group.—
Sam Warren,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
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Real social connections embed us in something larger than ourselves, connecting us to families, communities, organizations, and shared stories that provide us with transcendent meaning.—
Clay Routledge,
Fortune,
23 May 2026
Adjective
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Like the traditions of so many Indigenous cultures around the world, European fairy tales, taken together, provide us with insight into every level of those interconnected stories, and remind us of the moral codes that allow all of us—human, other-than-human, planet—to flourish.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 June 2026
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To stay or to leave, goes the modern moral dilemma.—
CNT Editors,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
Adjective
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But in Soni’s careful translation, the repetitions and subtle variation of Verma’s poems also achieve a haunting, transcendental resonance.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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Torn recently opened for transcendental drone purveyors Sunn O))), and longtime Sunn collaborator Randall Dunn produced imagine.—
Reed Jackson,
SPIN,
1 June 2026
Adjective
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Neither celestial grace nor damnation, for that matter, governs history and the creatures who populate it.—
Rachel Vorona Cote,
Vulture,
2 June 2026
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The signals, or long-period radio transients, are a class of celestial radio emissions discovered in 2005.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
2 June 2026
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“Angelic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/angelic. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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