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transcendence

[tran-sen-duhns] / trænˈsɛn dəns /






NOUN
transcendency
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Technocrats and transhumanists greet every computational advance as a step toward transcendence.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

“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

“Summertime” has endured because it holds emotional resonance for us all: Who cannot identify with comfort, hope and transcendence?

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

In “Gethsemane,” the path of suffering becomes clear, and Erivo’s transcendence was all the more worshipped by the audience for being painfully achieved.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2025

If his productions are merely almost transcendent, when the possibility of true transcendence exists somewhere nearby, waiting to be attained, then there is something else that must be done.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern




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