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transcendence

[tran-sen-duhns] / trænˈsɛn dəns /






NOUN
transcendency
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“Maybe they’re not churchgoers, so they have this sense of community and transcendence, where that song touches them on this level, which takes them somewhere else,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2025

The series, now in its second season on Fox Nation, is the filmmaker’s effort to find relevance for everyday existence in human stories of sacrifice, heroism and faith that led to spiritual transcendence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

His involvement grew serious after her death from cancer in 1972, and in “The Snow Leopard” his customarily graceful observations of nature shimmer with mystical meditations on grief, transcendence and enlightenment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Gray’s piece will also be in dialogue with this room, calling to it from another time and place — asking viewers to turn their gaze to history, slavery, transcendence, salvation, power and so much more.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2025

We have a higher self, a capacity for transcendence.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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