Thesaurus results for MIRACLE

miracle

noun

ˈmir-i-kəl

Definition of miracle

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 What Selma has been able to do physically in the years since is nothing short of a miracle. — Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Nene received the Cochlear Nucleus Nexa System, which takes the innovation beyond an aural miracle. — Lauryn Higgins, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 When the miracle year of 1967 dawned, Celtic resumed winning. — Michael Walker, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026 But Futura Sciences reports that the plant was heralded as something of a miracle in the 1930s, when soil erosion devastated wild swaths of farmland in the South, following the Dust Bowl. — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for miracle

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This was performance at its peak, a marvel to behold of an artist who helped build hip-hop as an institution while adding to the story still being written.

— Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 25 Oct. 2026
The fact that Drew still gazed upon my more than half-a-century-old, decidedly not-hot physique with love and desire was a marvel and a gift.

— Diana Daniele, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of marvel

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The health emergency caused demand for fuel to crash to the point that the world ran out of room to store oil, a phenomenon that briefly drove crude oil futures below zero for the first time ever.

— Matt Egan, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026
In 1980, to better understand this phenomenon, the mathematician and economist Graciela Chichilnisky turned to topology, an area of math in which shapes are considered equivalent if one can be stretched into another without tearing.

— Alex Stone, Quanta Magazine, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of phenomenon

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Infiniti plays math prodigy Julia Fischer, who is recruited into an elite prep course culminating in the most punishing exam in mathematics.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
The once-promising prodigy will grow dissolute, remorseful and resentful of his wife, who outlives him.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

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