transcendence
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Technocrats and transhumanists greet every computational advance as a step toward transcendence.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
The magic of this “Salome” is its transcendence of silliness into acceptance.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
Instead it helps bring home the horror movie’s big theme about the transcendence of art for oppressed people, including “music so true it can pierce the veil between life and death.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 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
The rich warm chocolate overtakes my mouth, erases my mind, spinning me into a state of transcendence.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
Vocabulary lists containing transcendence
Talk Like Shakespeare Day, List 8
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I'll Give You the Sun
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