metaphysical
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How strange then to understand this in physical motion, the flight path of my body, but to question it in metaphysical motion, the flight path of my soul.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 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
Or you could envelop yourself in Richard Kelly’s moody “Donnie Darko,” a teen drama touched by metaphysical doominess in which plane engines fall from the sky and death wears a rabbit costume.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
He was as cynical as I was regarding uplift and hope, and we were proud of having escaped what we called the “childhood disease of metaphysical fear.”
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
Vocabulary lists containing metaphysical
The Lightning Thief
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