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nirvana

noun as in enlightenment; bliss

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Religious folks have words for such spasmodic departures from the everyday, like beatitude, nirvana, ecstasy.

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I hope this burger recipe helps you find your way to burger nirvana — at least until grilling season returns.

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Even a few extra inches of room would get me closer to the sartorial nirvana I was chasing.

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And then another filmmaker with a completely different vision and a different voice, but that loves that flavor, does their version — that’s nirvana.

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“For some movements within Buddhism, the rainbow symbolizes the highest state a human being can reach before entering final enlightenment, or nirvana,” said the visiting Rev. Elizabeth Murphy.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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