soul
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In a sermon delivered in Italian on Thursday at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the pope suggested machines lack a soul, saying they merely "compile data" quickly.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
“Misty Green” is the first movie Rock has helmed in 12 years — a welcome return — and its title, SoCal setting and spurts of soul music announce he’s been contemplating Quentin Tarantino’s “Jackie Brown.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
British pop star Olivia Dean has been accused of copying the melody of Bill Withers' soul classic Just The Two of Us in a legal case filed in California.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Their British approach to R&B prized tightness, clarity, and buoyant precision over the loose, improvisational grit often associated with American soul.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
“She’ll be a soul in torment, carried off just when she was fixing to lock us up in that schoolhouse for another year.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Solipsism, the philosophical position that you can only experience your own consciousness, and therefore other people might not exist or have souls, is not a new idea.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
"It's how we impart what we believe, and we pour our hearts and our souls into what we make."
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Together the Bakkers spoke of the souls saved and the hardships overcome by those who put their lives in the hands of the Lord.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
It is also likely the reason that Sheen connected deeply with nearly everyone he encountered, drawing an estimated 42,000 souls to the Catholic Church.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Two thousand souls, believers and skeptics in roughly equal numbers, anxiously waited to hear from Maggie Fox.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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