platonic
Example Sentences
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Beyond the red door lies the platonic ideal of a Midcentury dive.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
Brockman said when he spoke with Zilis after learning Musk had fathered her twins, "she said that it was via IVF and that it was entirely platonic with Elon."
From BBC • May 5, 2026
Yes, chatbots are unusually persuasive, and writers pick up model biases without even knowing it, but the baseline isn’t some platonic ideal of a perfectly objective journalist.
From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026
Ms. Vaill nevertheless leans into it harder than previous biographers, who have characterized their mutual affection as platonic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
We continued to see each other in the music wing, but these interactions remained platonic, as if neither one of us wanted to mess with a good thing.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
Vocabulary lists containing platonic
The Sun Also Rises
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Little Fires Everywhere
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