mystical

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Recent Examples of mystical Hardly undone by all that, the plucky Texas teen enlists the otherworldly assist of her mystical, kooky and somewhat sage aunt Gugu (Lori Tan Chinn) and a sidekick, the vampire spirit Ed (Bowen Yang), who warned her about the demon Kit (Woosung Kim). Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2025 Pair the mystical hue with opalescent textures, like an inlaid mother-of-pearl side table. Lauren Thomann, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Jan. 2025 Also highlighted is Wrong Husband by Zacharias Kunuk, which transports viewers to a mystical world in the Canadian Arctic, where human and spirit realms collide in a fairy tale about young love. Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2025 Largely undeveloped with no grocery stores, streetlights, or sidewalks, Daufuskie is known for its unspoiled beaches, mystical marshlands, and rich Gullah culture. Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 6 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for mystical 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mystical
Adjective
  • Healy Lake members have long considered their dogs to be mystic companions, according to Combs.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2024
  • But there is also the slow minimalism of Morton Feldman and the manic yet patient seeking of Italy’s mystic count Giacinto Scelsi, in the twentieth century.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • David Lynch, the singular American filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist who conjured dreams and nightmares of unsettling beauty and psychic horror, has died.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The comedy satirizes a stranger-than-fiction psychic government investigation that actually happened in the 1990s.
    Gregg Goldstein, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The video brings to mind the claims made in Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism, in which Fisher proposed that capitalism has the uncanny ability to subsume all critiques into itself.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
  • When spending time with them, Brunelle observed uncanny similarities in their behavior and interests.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The groundbreaking find, the researchers claim, could reshape our understanding of the universe and its most powerful and mysterious signals.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Several years later, Hoffa disappeared under mysterious circumstances and was never seen again.
    David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • After a massive bitcoin facility started operating in the town of Granbury, people of all ages began to experience a range of unexplainable medical issues, including hypertension, chest pain, heart palpitations, migraines, vertigo, tinnitus, hearing loss, and panic attacks.
    Longreads, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2024
  • This fixation helps explain what is otherwise unexplainable — his bizarre obsession with changing the maps.
    S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Sources tell Deadline Jake Gyllenhaal is set to star in M. Night Shyamalan’s upcoming film, a supernatural romantic thriller, based on an original story co-created by Shyamalan and global-bestselling novelist Nicholas Sparks.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Ranging from supernatural thrillers to creature-features starring flesh-eating monsters, there's plenty to keep your eyes glued on AMC Networks' horror streaming video service.
    Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025

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“Mystical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mystical. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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