transcendent

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Which is to say: it was never going to taste as transcendent as it does in memory.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

But Mr. Styles’s voice, while expressive in certain contexts, is incapable of conveying hedonism, and “Aperture” ends up feeling blandly uplifting rather than transcendent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Not every soup will be transcendent — but most will be good, and many will be better than you expected.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026

“She would litigate those moments until they felt true to her, and then they were so transcendent when she did them,” Foley says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2026

And the ultimate source of these rights did not lie in any indigenously American origins, but rather in a transcendent realm of natural rights allegedly shared by all men everywhere.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis