platonic
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In “Our Perfect Storm,” childhood best friends Frankie and George go on a platonic honeymoon after Frankie’s fiancé dumps her at the start of their wedding weekend.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 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
“They want to see more development of platonic relationships and asexual connections.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
His “Cosmic Mystery” was disproved entirely by the much later discoveries of the planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto—there are no additional platonic solids' that would determine their distances from the sun.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing platonic
The Sun Also Rises
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Little Fires Everywhere
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