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transcendence

[tran-sen-duhns] / trænˈsɛn dəns /






NOUN
transcendency
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“Summertime” has endured because it holds emotional resonance for us all: Who cannot identify with comfort, hope and transcendence?

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

Instead it helps bring home the horror movie’s big theme about the transcendence of art for oppressed people, including “music so true it can pierce the veil between life and death.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025

This transcendence is one of the film’s greatest gifts, a chance to practice serenity and patience when there is little of either.

From Salon • May 2, 2025

The spiritual transcendence portion of the exhibit is marked by multiple television sets that play Coltrane’s show “Eternity’s Pillar,” in which she shared her teachings.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2025

I felt myself rising, light-headed with transcendence, an overflowing fountain.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez




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