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as in magic
having seemingly supernatural qualities or powers
the notion that a cat has nine lives is based upon the belief that nine is a mystic number
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as in mysterious
being beyond one's powers to know, understand, or explain
the belief that there are mystic forces at work here
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as in ambiguous
having an often intentionally veiled or uncertain meaning
mystic prophesies that are never understood until it is too late
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as in oracle
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Recent Examples of mystic
Mandeep Rai, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
The show is a mystic library, full of places that no longer exist.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
Lisa Stardust, People.com, 26 Oct. 2024
From her breakout role as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family to legendary performances in films like Sleepy Hollow and The Lizzie Borden Chronicles, Ricci, 44, has long been an icon for mystics and lovers of all things macabre.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 8 Oct. 2024
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Recognized as one of India’s, and perhaps the world’s 50 most influential people, Sadhguru is a yogi, mystic, environmental activist, poet, and the bestselling author of over thirty books.
—Mandeep Rai, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
The show is a mystic library, full of places that no longer exist.
—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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These notorious mystics from film and television exemplify their corresponding zodiac sign.
—Lisa Stardust, People.com, 26 Oct. 2024
From her breakout role as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family to legendary performances in films like Sleepy Hollow and The Lizzie Borden Chronicles, Ricci, 44, has long been an icon for mystics and lovers of all things macabre.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 8 Oct. 2024
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Master Sommelier Thomas Price, who works at Auburn University’s 1856 Restaurant and is the state of Alabama’s only master sommelier, agrees that 24 hours is the magic number.Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 24 Dec. 2024
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The bounty of food prepared by my grandparents was like a magic trick.Claudia Alarcón, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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President-elect Donald Trump said U.S. government officials, including President Joe Biden, know where the mysterious drone sightings along the East Coast are coming and going from, accusing the leaders without evidence of intentionally keeping those details from the public.Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
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Heinrich, who was filling in for host Shannon Bream, suggested that the mysterious drone situation could possibly be like when the Japanese spied on the U.S. before launching a surprise attack on the Pearl Harbor naval base near Honolulu on December 7, 1941.Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
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The movie is ambiguous about why Dylan offers to drive Rotolo to the festival on his motorcycle and then leaves her to tearfully witness his chemistry with Baez — whether there is lingering romantic interest there.Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Dec. 2024
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Out of the box, human language is ambiguous and nuanced with idioms, sarcasm or cultural references, challenging LLMs to interpret correctly.Son Nguyen, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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After the election, betting sites may look less like oracles than mirrors, reflecting the nation’s disunity back at us.Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2024
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Not only that, but far from being omniscient, impersonal and impartial oracles, machine learning results can be heavily conditioned by the quality of the input data and by the assumptions in the machine learning algorithm’s modeling.Federico Guerrini, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
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Here are a few ideas for quick travel options to go to places that will surely be covered in beautiful, magical snow this winter.Zach Bradshaw, The Arizona Republic, 16 Dec. 2024
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The massive musical stars Cynthia Erivo as magical young woman Elphaba, who is misunderstood because of her unusual green skin and has yet to discover her true power, and Ariana Grande as popular young woman Glinda, who is gilded by privilege and ambition and has yet to discover her true heart.Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2024
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Fans and friends alike can’t get enough of the abstract albeit cryptic cover art.Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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Read: Pets really can be like human family Wearables could be especially helpful for cats, who are notoriously cryptic and tend to hide pain until a condition has significantly progressed.Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2024
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Advertisement Sometime in the wee hours Sunday morning, the lights over the speedway went dark for the last time.Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
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Compared to the original cultivars, the newer cultivars offered a variety of advantages, including sturdiness, longer flowering, earlier flowering, dwarfism, bigger bracts, darker green foliage, and beyond.Norman Ellstrand and Nathan Ellstrand / Made by History, TIME, 23 Dec. 2024
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All the great seers and philosophers say our daily life is an illusion.Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
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Dating back to classical antiquity, the idea that a soothsayer can tell something about a person’s health, disposition, or destiny from the lines on their palm has long fascinated seers and scientists alike.The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Mystic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mystic. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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