transcendence
Example Sentences
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Harrison sought transcendence; what he set in motion was securitization.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
“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
Gray’s piece will also be in dialogue with this room, calling to it from another time and place — asking viewers to turn their gaze to history, slavery, transcendence, salvation, power and so much more.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2025
In “Gethsemane,” the path of suffering becomes clear, and Erivo’s transcendence was all the more worshipped by the audience for being painfully achieved.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2025
We have a higher self, a capacity for transcendence.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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