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paradise

[par-uh-dahys, -dahyz] / ˈpær əˌdaɪs, -ˌdaɪz /


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Leo cautioned against "losing our humanity amid a paradise of machines" in wide-ranging remarks to Church and state officials at the Élysée Palace.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

As I moved from darkened room to darkened room, ridiculed in one, flirted with in another, a thread of finding one’s own personal paradise in a hellscape began to emerge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

New arrivals to paradise seeking halos and wings are viewed by heaven’s longtimers as laughable naifs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

However, owning a piece of that paradise is, sadly, still out of her reach, she noted.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

Instead of returning to Rome with the sudden fortune, which had been his dream maturing in misery, José Arcadio converted the house into a decadent paradise.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Sinkholes are paradises for many rare and endangered plant species. We are continuing to make new discoveries.”

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2024

Neither Amsterdam nor Brussels were pedestrian paradises in the 1970s.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2022

White understands the nuances of class struggle and how manicured paradises have a way of relaxing the unsuspecting into dropping their masks.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2021

In the early days of the pandemic, cities and residents sought to keep coronavirus patients away from their paradises.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2020

Some scholars imagine ancient hunter-gatherer societies as peaceful paradises, and argue that war and violence began only with the Agricultural Revolution, when people started to accumulate private property.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari


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