transcendent
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"Normally you have to be dead or in jail for us to write a song about you," he laughs, "but she's a feminine force field. A kind of transcendent, ecstatic musician."
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
The hope and the change, the transcendent conviction that the systemic levers of government are not corroded beyond repair, the optimist I used to be—it all came rushing back.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
The photos humanize Coltrane while intensifying his myth as someone in holy communion with the transcendent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
There is no next opponent waiting in the shadows, only 80,000 roaring voices, a sea of green, white and orange tricolours and the final chapter of a transcendent career.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Then there was movement and the borning once more of the transcendent fraternity that comes between athletes in the unseen moments when they move together toward the lights of an arena and the waiting crowd.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain
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