on high

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for on high
Noun
  • No matter, the robins are arriving, the sun is climbing higher in the sky and warm days are sure to come soon.
    Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Similarly, the moon too goes through these up and down motions, but cycles through the entire sky much more quickly: once every month.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • But even if life doesn’t bring me back to that little shop in rural England, that bit of bliss can come back to me.
    Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Her weekends were spent in old warehouses on the outskirts of the city—rooms filled with blaring techno and young Czechs lost in their own transient states of bliss.
    Puja Patel, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In this island paradise, Prospera’s lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant to measure their physical health and psychological well-being, fall below 10 percent.
    Kevin Spencer, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Or establish trade routes with them to boost the health of your paradise's economy?
    David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In Greek mythology, Atlas was a Titan who was forced to hold up the heavens for eternity.
    Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The show had peaks and valleys, but the strongest stuff — particularly early season dud dates with a rolling list of comedians, including Ben Feldman, Anders Holm, Mark Duplass, Bill Hader, and B.J. Novak (duh) — was rom-com heaven.
    Erin Strecker, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2025
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