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elemental

[el-uh-men-tl] / ˌɛl əˈmɛn tl /


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“Possible Love” hovers over the moment’s sublimity like the moonlight and I haven’t stopped thinking about its elemental beauty since.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

But you watch these episodes, and he’s asking really elemental stuff about humanity.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026

The plays of Shakespeare will always be relevant because he wrote of human beings in both their elemental goodness and darkness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

"Things like spatial distributions of the bones and their surfaces, down to elemental compositions and proteins trapped in ancient cells."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

‘An elemental comes into being when something hugely powerful dies -something like a waterfall or an ice river -and its souls are scattered. An elemental is the strongest demon of all.’

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver


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