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Recent Examples of mythological
Lethe, the mythological Greek river of forgetfulness, is compared to the potent plant poison, and the speaker implores the reader to refuse both.
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Laura Murphy, JSTOR Daily, 28 Feb. 2025
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece the bronze head of a griffin, the mythological creature, after determining that the artifact from the 7th century B.C. was likely stolen from an archaeological museum in Olympia in the 1930s.
—Graham Bowley, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
The 18-episode season made Laura’s death feel almost world-historic, peeling back the layers to reveal a grand, mythological evil manipulating events into shape.
—K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
Up until this point, Galaxy’s Edge has been canonical in the Star Wars universe — which means the stories told in Black Spire Outpost were part of the official mythological history of the fictional saga.
—Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 7 Feb. 2025
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Laura Murphy, JSTOR Daily, 28 Feb. 2025
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece the bronze head of a griffin, the mythological creature, after determining that the artifact from the 7th century B.C. was likely stolen from an archaeological museum in Olympia in the 1930s.
—Graham Bowley, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
The 18-episode season made Laura’s death feel almost world-historic, peeling back the layers to reveal a grand, mythological evil manipulating events into shape.
—K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
Up until this point, Galaxy’s Edge has been canonical in the Star Wars universe — which means the stories told in Black Spire Outpost were part of the official mythological history of the fictional saga.
—Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mythological
Adjective
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Despite its allegorical significance about paganism, the snake myth has persisted unquestioned.—
Gemma Allen,
Forbes,
16 Mar. 2025
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The other medieval link comes from the ‘allegorical’ aspect of the jewelry, as the illustrations in the pieces tell a story across the entire collection.—
Kyle Roderick,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Unlike the more familiar real numbers – positive and negative integers, fractions, square roots, cube roots and even numbers such as pi – complex numbers have an imaginary component.—
William Ross,
The Conversation,
10 Mar. 2025
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The system that most captured his imagination was an imaginary device that had launched the field of computer science, the Turing machine.—
Charlie Wood,
Quanta Magazine,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Medina’s fanciful dog costumes mostly combine monochrome onesies with patches and other accessories for a cheery array of colors, while MC Dog’s costume nods to traditional Latin American patterns and Hattie’s hot pink look is accented with ruffles and glitter.—
Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Mar. 2025
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What is meant to be fanciful can feel tedious at times.—
Elizabeth Toohey,
The Christian Science Monitor,
18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Yet in the past, intimate scenes in theater, film and television were rarely treated with the same mindfulness as a make-believe duel.—
Julie Hinds,
Detroit Free Press,
17 Mar. 2023
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The internet provided a fertile new stage for my proclivity for make-believe.—
Kira Homsher,
Longreads,
14 Mar. 2023
Adjective
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In this mostly fictional version, the reclusive Omara has to decide whether or not to come back from retirement and record with her old colleagues from the fervent Cuban years, thus confronting those ghosts.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
20 Mar. 2025
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Here are our 25 favorite pairs of fictional best friends from movies and TV.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
EW.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Mythological.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mythological. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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