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metaphysical

[met-uh-fiz-i-kuhl] / ˌmɛt əˈfɪz ɪ kəl /


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Ms. Cannon’s novels often include a metaphysical twist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

As I walked out into the desert sunshine, I tried to reconcile the suffering I’d seen online with aliens performing metaphysical microsurgeries throughout my body.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

There is something almost existential or metaphysical about what happens to them, as if someone hit the reset button on their entire personality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Dürrenmatt is more focused on moral than metaphysical questions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

The categories of grammar reflect the building blocks of thought—time, space, causality, matter—and a philosophical wordsmith can play with them to awaken her readers to metaphysical conundrums.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker


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