transcendent

Example Sentences

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I suspect the Pope sees his role as an advocate who promotes transcendent values rather than as a gardener who tries to reserve a plot for weeds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Which is to say: it was never going to taste as transcendent as it does in memory.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

“She would litigate those moments until they felt true to her, and then they were so transcendent when she did them,” Foley says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2026

Shea Serrano’s catalogue of basketball greatness looks past stats and scores to privilege transcendent moments on the court.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Satan breaks the silence: If thou beest he; But O how fall'll! how chang’d From him, who in the happy Realms of Light Cloth’d with transcendent brightness didst out-shine Myriads though bright...

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith