as in sacred
set apart or worthy of veneration by association with God
sacral laws that have been passed down for generations
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Recent Examples of sacral
The Spa The pink and white Astor Salon & Spa offers facials, massages, body treatments, reflexology, reiki, and cranial sacral therapy sessions.
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Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 19 July 2024
Cooper Jones has sacral agenesis, a congenital condition that affects the lower spine.
—Longreads, 3 May 2024
People with paraplegia can control their bladder through sacral nerve stimulation, facilitating communication between the bladder and brain.
—Caroline Barlott, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2015
The DoubleBlind merch section has some kitschy items, like vials of sacral balancing oil (sold out), but the brand ethos, by and large, is more do-good than Day-Glo.
—New York Times, 20 July 2022
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Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 19 July 2024
Cooper Jones has sacral agenesis, a congenital condition that affects the lower spine.
—Longreads, 3 May 2024
People with paraplegia can control their bladder through sacral nerve stimulation, facilitating communication between the bladder and brain.
—Caroline Barlott, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2015
The DoubleBlind merch section has some kitschy items, like vials of sacral balancing oil (sold out), but the brand ethos, by and large, is more do-good than Day-Glo.
—New York Times, 20 July 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sacral
Adjective
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As neoliberalism took hold, the market moved into the space once occupied by the sacred and the social.—
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Wilson notes that, in Black cultures, there traditionally is no separation between the sacred and the secular.—
Essence,
Essence,
29 May 2025
Adjective
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There is some irony that the lawmakers working on the bill with preliminary votes on both Saturday and Sunday, the Jewish Sabbath and the Christian Sabbath, violated the commandment to keep the Sabbath day holy.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
27 May 2025
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Below, shop the 13 best ceramide moisturizers recommended by experts, along with holy grail picks from Vogue editors themselves.—
Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
26 May 2025
Adjective
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Its practical effects and creature designs remain dazzlingly strange, and its subterranean world—labyrinthine, liturgical, and etched with mysterious lore—echoes the Underpass in Us.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
21 May 2025
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As the hundreds of thousands of attendees collected themselves after the nearly two-and-a-half hour ceremony, some cardinals helped each other straighten their mitres, the liturgical pointed hats.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
18 May 2025
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Some of those details are in opposition to one another – the ancient and the modern, the religious and the secular -particularly in Riyadh.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
27 May 2025
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Mahmood is the daughter of a Russian Jewish mother and an Indian Hindu father, according to past reporting, and grew up around cultural and religious practices from both sides of her family.—
Molly Morrow,
Chicago Tribune,
26 May 2025
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“Sacral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sacral. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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