platonic

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Recent Examples of platonic In the Platonic dialogue Theaetetus, Socrates tells us where that beginning is. Theodore McDarrah, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024 After much testing and futzing, Wyatt landed on a kind of platonic cornbread: corn-y with a touch of wheat flour and sugar. Scott Hocker, theweek, 26 Nov. 2024 With headliners Radiohead, Lady Gaga, and Kendrick Lamar, and an undercard that included rising stars Travis Scott, Mitski, Kaytranada, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, and Thundercat, 2017 gets as close to the platonic ideal of a festival booking as possible. Al Shipley, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024 Differing expectations of friendship Platonic relationships between men and women are a relatively recent phenomenon. Allie Volpe, Vox, 2 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for platonic 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for platonic
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  • Combating The Threat Clearly, GPS spoofing is no longer a hypothetical problem, nor one limited to far-off zones of conflict.
    Eric Updyke, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
  • These harms are inextricable from the idea of superintelligence, because experts do not currently know how to align these hypothetical systems with human values.
    Tharin Pillay, TIME, 8 Jan. 2025
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  • Unfortunately, Leibniz became all too fascinated by theoretical questions of dynamics, exasperating the miners.
    Anthony Gottlieb, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Each year, the Robot – a naïve stock-picking paradigm, generates a theoretical portfolio of ten very unpopular stocks.
    John Dorfman, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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  • The ongoing relationship allows doulas to monitor and address any potential birthing issues.
    Cynthia McEwen, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The only potential scenario of coaching in the NFL that Deion has reportedly entertained is the chance to coach his sons, quarterback Shedeur and defensive back Shilo.
    Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Jan. 2025
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  • Income taxes, nonexistent seventeen years before, now at the minimum 25 percent at the top and as of eighteen months past Smoot Hawley, 63 percent.
    Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
  • And Delta might not want to rush to deploy too many AI features anyway, considering such past airline-AI mishaps as a Canadian court requiring Air Canada to honor a fare-reimbursement promise that its support chatbot offered after citing a nonexistent policy.
    Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 8 Jan. 2025
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  • News about possible tariffs should give the issue more visibility.
    Neil Winton, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Ice accumulations up to one-tenth of an inch and wind gusts up to 40 miles per hour are possible.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 5 Jan. 2025
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  • But the possible consequences of an Iranian nuclear capability are largely conjectural (save for one: nobody would think of invading Iran anymore).
    Barry R. Posen, Foreign Affairs, 7 Sep. 2010
  • That statistic is somewhat conjectural, since the vast majority of rapes in India are apparently not reported.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
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  • The Burton Process Flying V snowboard is an ideal all-terrain board used by pro-boarder, Mark McMorris.
    Christopher Murray, Fox News, 13 Jan. 2025
  • In a recent interview with Metro's Alistair McGeorge, Knight shared his thoughts on pursuing projects outside of WWE and revealed his ideal co-star for a potential acting venture.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025

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“Platonic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/platonic. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.

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