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as in sky
a dwelling place of perfect happiness for the soul after death
the godly life she has lived will surely lead to infinite bliss after death
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as in joy
a feeling or state of well-being and contentment
the enviable bliss of a happily married couple
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Recent Examples of bliss
Hailey Bieber just gave fans a little dose of baby bliss to start the new year.
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Maggie Ekberg, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
Boss battles are pure, chaotic, bullet hell bliss that maintain just the right level of challenge, and the dungeons leading to them are a blast to navigate through.
—Jason Evangelho, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
When snow flurries fall on Seeley Lake, Montana, snowmobilers zip into the backcountry for another day of powdery bliss.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 23 Dec. 2024
Premised on an intense communal dance, the movement suggested that adopting ancestral traditions would deliver Indigenous Americans to a pre-European state of bliss, peace and freedom.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2024
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Maggie Ekberg, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
Boss battles are pure, chaotic, bullet hell bliss that maintain just the right level of challenge, and the dungeons leading to them are a blast to navigate through.
—Jason Evangelho, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
When snow flurries fall on Seeley Lake, Montana, snowmobilers zip into the backcountry for another day of powdery bliss.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 23 Dec. 2024
Premised on an intense communal dance, the movement suggested that adopting ancestral traditions would deliver Indigenous Americans to a pre-European state of bliss, peace and freedom.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bliss
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The sky lit up light blue, a moment of daylight in the night.—
Laura J. Nelson,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Jan. 2025
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All of these things depend on this large object in the sky called the sun.—
Rhett Allain,
WIRED,
24 Jan. 2025
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Think of the way Jon M. Chu, Cynthia Erivo, and Ariana Grande honed the message that Wicked was not just a remarkably successful capitalization of Broadway IP but a tribute to radical joy.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
28 Jan. 2025
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Instead of being detrimental to my mental health, as so many stereotypical wedding events frequently are, our wedding events only added to my joy.—
Lina Hidalgo,
Vogue,
27 Jan. 2025
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Call: If there’s a heaven for goalie goals, Doc Emrick is the one doing all the calls.—
Sean McIndoe,
The Athletic,
22 Jan. 2025
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Herschel, which viewed the heavens in infrared light, launched in May 2009 and ended its mission four years later.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
20 Jan. 2025
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Like hope, wonder is doubt is faith is A woman exiled, feeling her way from paradise to an arid wilderness Stolen in pursuit of ahistorical happiness, amnesiac.—
Paul Tran,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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The static image of your face can be transformed into nearly any expression, happiness, sadness, scorn, relief, and so on.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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The area — part of the state's Forgotten Coast — is known as a nature lover's paradise with no high-rise buildings or heavy traffic.—
Dobrina Zhekova,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Jan. 2025
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In Butler’s book, climate change has brought destruction to what was once paradise.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Jan. 2025
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“Bliss.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bliss. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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