as in mystic
impossible to prove, understand, or explain by either the senses or intelligence
Survivors of near-death experiences sometimes report mystical visions of the afterlife.
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Recent Examples of mystical
But there's also race history, manifested in fandom by Secretariat, the almost mystical champion racehorse known as Big Red who ruled the tracks in the mid-1970s.
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Javier Zarracina, USA Today, 3 May 2025
The first week of the month has an almost magical quality to it, and even mundane everyday conversations could lead to spiritual breakthroughs, mystical synchronicities, and exciting bursts of creative inspiration.
—Nina Kahn, StyleCaster, 28 Apr. 2025
Well, there's only one Aggie Cromwell (Debbie Reynolds), a centuries-old witch who not only introduces her grandchildren to the mystical realm of Halloweentown but also teaches them the art of broom-flying, spell-casting, fancy microwaves, potion-brewing, and more.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Fred is left to make sense of his wife’s disappearance in a story that takes a mystical turn.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 28 Apr. 2025
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Javier Zarracina, USA Today, 3 May 2025
The first week of the month has an almost magical quality to it, and even mundane everyday conversations could lead to spiritual breakthroughs, mystical synchronicities, and exciting bursts of creative inspiration.
—Nina Kahn, StyleCaster, 28 Apr. 2025
Well, there's only one Aggie Cromwell (Debbie Reynolds), a centuries-old witch who not only introduces her grandchildren to the mystical realm of Halloweentown but also teaches them the art of broom-flying, spell-casting, fancy microwaves, potion-brewing, and more.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Fred is left to make sense of his wife’s disappearance in a story that takes a mystical turn.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mystical
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Among employees, he had been known as a deep thinker and even something of a mystic, regularly speaking in spiritual terms.—
Karen Hao,
The Atlantic,
15 May 2025
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Lag BaOmer celebrates the anniversary of the passing of the great sage and mystic Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai.—
Rabbi Moishe Kievman,
Sun Sentinel,
9 May 2025
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There were lots of articles on protecting yourself from psychic attacks; some of them were way out there.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
19 May 2025
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Ramsay’s filmmaking is undeniably powerful, engulfing us in the sick stew of Grace’s mind while flooding the soundtrack with music from Lou Reed, David Bowie, and the Cocteau Twins (Ramsay has always been an apt picker of songs that tell the psychic story of her films’ protagonists).—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
17 May 2025
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As an escaped convict posing as a beloved preacher, and as his gentle, upright twin, Robeson embodies a devastating split between appearance and truth, and whose uncanny doubling plays out in a community shaped by racial violence, spiritual deception, and economic precarity.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
21 May 2025
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Many of these films, the recent Snow White most nefarious amongst them, are leaden with uncanny valley CGI, bizarre green screen devotion and a surprising lack of artistic intent.—
Gregory Nussen,
Deadline,
20 May 2025
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Carlton Reid Based on 20 years of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, new research sheds light on one of the solar system’s most mysterious planets.—
Ryan Waniata,
Wired News,
27 May 2025
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Denim shifts toward a mysterious direction in Blooming Darkness.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
27 May 2025
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The Moorehead family isn’t the only one left to navigate an unexplainable tragedy.—
Sam Gillette,
People.com,
20 May 2025
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Take it from someone who dealt with unexplainable burning for years.—
Cheyenne Buckingham,
SELF,
13 May 2025
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But things are brewing around another movie title, the 2022 supernatural horror thriller What Lies Beneath, which Johnson executive produced.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
30 May 2025
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More than just a haunted house novel, this is a supernatural psychological thriller.—
Gabino Iglesias,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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“Mystical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mystical. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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