as in mystic
impossible to prove, understand, or explain by either the senses or intelligence
Survivors of near-death experiences sometimes report mystical visions of the afterlife.
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That mystical encounter with the fox was only the beginning.
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Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
Concerning the symbolic, there is often a whiff of mystery and obfuscation, of being vaguely jangly, a bit mystical and slightly magical.
—Literary Hub, 23 Dec. 2025
There are gorgeous story collections, as well: Louise Erdrich’s mystical musings, Rachel Khong’s loopy dramas, and Ruth Ozeki’s meditations on the highs and lows of the writing life.
—Hamilton Cain, Time, 22 Dec. 2025
The beauty of these mystical, multi-faceted layer cakes was that everyone tweaked them to their liking, from adding coconut or not, to what frosting is spread around the edges.
—Anne Byrn, Southern Living, 17 Dec. 2025
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Although Nuccio is as down to earth as anyone could be, and definitely not a mystic, there can be no disputing his stature as a remarkable man.—
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Madonna was born and raised Catholic but has long practiced the Jewish mystic tradition of Kabbalah and adopted the Hebrew name Esther in 2004, per The Forward.—
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There are no speakers in the songs of MJ Lenderman other than MJ Lenderman, whose diffidence and exhaustion are in all-too-perfect lockstep with the psychic frustrations of his listeners.—
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This completed a plan previously pitched by her sister Kali (Linnea Berthelsen), who argued ending their own lives was the only way to stop the government's psychic child program and destroy the Upside Down for good.—
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Some of Lilo’s predictions have gone viral for their uncanny accuracy.—
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There’s something uncanny about this still and stunning portrait of a twenty-one-year-old Taylor Swift, shot by Katy Grannan for Lizzie Widdicombe’s Profile of the singer, in 2011.—
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Not to mention the titular bugs, a swarm of blood-invading creatures discovered by her new lover, the mysterious drifter Peter Evans (Namir Smallwood).—
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The Columbus, Ohio, police chief is speaking out for the first time since the mysterious murders of dentist Spencer Tepe and his wife, Monique Tepe.—
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The most concerning signs of bullying are unexplainable injuries, self-harm or talk of suicide.—
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Machine learning models can produce unreliable, unpredictable and unexplainable outcomes.—
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Set in Hawkins, Indiana in the 1980s, Stranger Things starts with a true-crime mystery that quickly turns supernatural.—
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An epic with supernatural and epigenetic overtones, this debut novel looks like a feast of a story.—
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“Mystical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mystical. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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