transcendent

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

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

Not every soup will be transcendent — but most will be good, and many will be better than you expected.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026

By the end of the play, the tumultuous human drama behind creative brilliance emerges in poignant, transcendent glory.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2025

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

And the ultimate source of these rights did not lie in any indigenously American origins, but rather in a transcendent realm of natural rights allegedly shared by all men everywhere.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis