apotheosis
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They called it the “Attitude Era,” and in retrospect it represented the absolute apotheosis of pre-millennium x-treme marketing.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
But she later enjoyed an apotheosis as the matriarch of the largest empire the world had ever seen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
“Huck Finn” was the apotheosis of Twain’s gift for truth-telling, as he exposed the sadistic oppression of Black people and made the slave Jim the hero.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025
This revisionist history reached its apotheosis with a 2007 essay collection edited by the historians Kenneth T. Jackson and Hilary Ballon.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2024
After several rounds of refinement in the Langley wind tunnels, the Mustang achieved its apotheosis with the P-51D.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
And the things it forgets, the apotheoses and apocalypses it lets sift through its mesh!
From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2016
They are their own apotheoses, their own parodies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pictures of battles, triumphs, apotheoses filled the galleries.
From The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation by Ernst Von Dobschutz
Eagle of the apotheoses, what breath of Erebus has driven thee to me? or, flying from the Campus Martius, dost thou bring to me the soul of the last of the Emperors?
From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Gustave Flaubert
Outraged public conscience extinguishes the fires of apotheoses such as these.
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
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