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Recent Examples of god
Versions of resolutions have existed for about 4,000 years; in Babylonia and ancient Rome, people prayed together, paid off their debts, and made promises of good conduct to their gods.
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Valerie Trapp, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025
Ninety-five percent of physicists who won the Nobel Prize in the twentieth century believed in a god.
—Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
So Roman King Numa Pompilius extended their calendar to 12 months by adding February and January, named after Janus, the Roman god of beginnings.
—Ayana Archie, NPR, 29 Dec. 2025
That’s Jets-level misfortune; the football gods telling you to pack it up for the season.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for god
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The Sherpa call Chomolungma a deity.—
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Most are snide and strident, petty and self-serving, and their bickersome denunciations turn monotonous in ways that suggest, at times, a less-than-generous deity in the director’s chair.—
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Additionally, hometown hero and skier Gus Kenworthy acts as host for the entire week, which features events like the blow-out White Party, a drag and burlesque show with both national and local talent, and the Glitter Ball where anything that sparkles is in fashion.—
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The town is named for the Greek mythological creature Scylla, a sea monster with multiple heads that was fabled to terrorize sailors (most notably, the hero Odysseus) who dared to travel the water between Italy and Sicily.—
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On Micronesia, Fields spearheaded the effort to vote him out with an idol in his pocket.—
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The residency show is a bit of a love letter to the music idols and genres from decades past.—
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Even Ethan Almighty has been affected by the generosity of Supplies Over Seas.—
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By the time Laras is making like Linda Blair, malicious jinn power resisting that of Almighty Allah, the film has already gone down a familiar path of grotesque makeup, stunts and digital FX.—
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The first — Nietzsche’s 1881 Eternal Recurrence — is a life test by design, echoing Camus’ Sisyphus.—
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Some cultures, Eliade shows, preserve their eternals by simply denying the force of history; in Lyell’s case, the culture at hand was Christianity, and the ideal was the unique status of humankind.—
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“God.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/god. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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