as in marvel
something extraordinary or surprising
it's a miracle that you weren't hurt in the accident
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Recent Examples of miracle
The best films of the 1920s were miracles because nobody knew what cinema was yet.
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Clayton Davis, Variety, 25 Oct. 2025
One of the miracles of the fire is that the cedars did survive, mostly intact except for a few limbs that were broken in the fierce winds.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025
Somewhere in that camera was a small miracle.
—Cameron Crowe, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
But this Halloween, chasing away the ghouls haunting Tesla looks like a miracle too far.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
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Clayton Davis, Variety, 25 Oct. 2025
One of the miracles of the fire is that the cedars did survive, mostly intact except for a few limbs that were broken in the fierce winds.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025
Somewhere in that camera was a small miracle.
—Cameron Crowe, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
But this Halloween, chasing away the ghouls haunting Tesla looks like a miracle too far.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for miracle
Recent Examples of Synonyms for miracle
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This natural marvel, known as the Emerald Cave, is only part of the experience, which begins on the Colorado River where Nevada meets Arizona.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Oct. 2025
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Technological marvels do little to ameliorate the hardscrabble existence of most workers; sixty-five-year labor contracts are the norm.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
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Because John Herschel believed that the correlation between magnetic storms and auroras revealed both to be meteorological phenomena, the new observatories would be equipped with weather instruments that, in time, would permit the first global measurements of climate change.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
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What van Teutem describes, however, is part of a systemwide phenomenon that’s been decades in the making.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
26 Oct. 2025
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Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on our planet, explore the wonders of our star's domain, or venture into the interstellar realm beyond it.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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The property also serves as a basecamp to the wonders of Olympic National Park, with easy access to Sol Duc Falls, where water thunders over mossy rock, and the pristine, glacially carved Lake Crescent.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
24 Oct. 2025
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The film is a 1950s period piece that stars Chalamet as a rising, unshakably ambitious ping-pong prodigy.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
22 Oct. 2025
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Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster who started as a child prodigy and quickly became one of the most influential American voices in the sport, died Monday.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Miracle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miracle. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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