mythic
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In Borneo, a mythic spider brings forth life by feeding a tree; in Polynesia, spider-silk ladders connect heaven and earth.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
For all the recent excitement around Zcash, the token lacks a feature that helped fuel bitcoin’s mythic status: a mysterious creator.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Griffin even made for himself an industry town called Frostproof—a canny, if defiant, advertising play, named years prior, after the town had survived the mythic 1895 freeze without much issue.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
Her experiences are almost mythic, like peering through the looking glass at a time when misery could actively coexist with unbridled bliss.
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026
He was the kind driven by the visions of certain men who’d come to occupy mythic sites in his life, scratchy visions of Rockne, Lombardi, visions of LBJ, Nixon.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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