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heaven

[hev-uhn] / ˈhɛv ən /


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That’s not your total return because it doesn’t include appreciation — or, heaven forbid, depreciation — of your home.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Another way of saying this is that they’ve found a new way to dress up “Survivor,” the original — and, heaven help us, still running — task-based themed elimination show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

From then on, Swedenborg believed he was able to travel to heaven and hell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

"But... the whole country was full of vigour, and there was a spirit of struggling with heaven, earth, and people to change every aspect of China," the retiree said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

They shoot off the cannons in Reverend Hunt’s honor; a great man has gone to his reward in heaven.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

José Rivera’s “Marisol” came out around the same time as Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America,” and both plays, vibrating with millennial anxieties, carry the earthly battle for human survival up to the heavens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

As Manchester United's home game with Ipswich Town drew to its conclusion, the skies went dark grey and the heavens opened.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

The Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, opened the heavens to new and fascinating inspection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

In “Travelin’ Thru,” Parton raises her voice to the heavens and declares, “When I’m born again, you’re gonna see a change in me.”

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

Scoob steels himself and heads in what he hopes to the high heavens, as Dad likes to say when he’s being more over the top than usual, is the right direction.

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone


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