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Recent Examples of mythological
This next-generation Apollo program — named after Apollo’s mythological twin sister, Artemis — includes plans to send four astronauts around the moon as soon as next year.
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Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
Nelson's tenure oversaw significant advancements in NASA's human spaceflight initiatives, particularly the Artemis program—named after Apollo's mythological twin sister—which aims to return humans to the Moon.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
The sprites are said to depict mythological figures representing the natural world.
—Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2024
The exhibition includes sculpture, drawings and prints, as well as a series of her signature neons that light up the façade of the historic house depicting animals, ice creams, Hindu deities and mythological creatures.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
Nelson's tenure oversaw significant advancements in NASA's human spaceflight initiatives, particularly the Artemis program—named after Apollo's mythological twin sister—which aims to return humans to the Moon.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
The sprites are said to depict mythological figures representing the natural world.
—Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2024
The exhibition includes sculpture, drawings and prints, as well as a series of her signature neons that light up the façade of the historic house depicting animals, ice creams, Hindu deities and mythological creatures.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mythological
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There’s enough perverse, sometimes grimly funny particularity to their characterizations to complicate the allegorical leanings of the film’s script, written by the director with an anonymous collaborator, which etches micro-portraits of gaping human sadness in a larger panorama of mass tragedy.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
12 Dec. 2024
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Even Elio Vittorini’s Conversation in Sicily (1941), the most celebrated anti-Fascist Italian novel of the war years, operates in a murky, allegorical register; it couldn’t have been published otherwise.—
Christopher Tayler,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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The feature, from experimental filmmaker Matthew Rankin, is an absurdist comedy set in an imaginary Canada where French and Farsi are the country’s two official languages.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Jan. 2025
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Advertisement Since Southern California was located somewhere near 6:30 on this imaginary clock face, the result was winds traveling from east to west — the opposite of their normal direction.—
Ned Kleiner,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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Also lost were performance posters, a bust of Schoenberg and ephemera such as the fanciful playing card sets the composer designed.—
Stacy Perman,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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Dress up dapper because moody Francis Hall is sophisticated, intimate and crafting fanciful sips. KILN Location: Hotel Heron: 699 Prince St, Alexandria, VA 22314 For Saturday dinner, visit KILN, which just so happens to be the ground-floor restaurant at the hotel.—
Kayleigh Ruller,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Jan. 2025
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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
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The duo first shared the screen in 1999's Any Given Sunday, which follows a fictional professional football team.—
Nicholas Rice,
People.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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In his office, Berg used an ice axe to pitch Smith on a collaboration, which would eventually follow a fictional frontiersman and mother-son duo navigating the Westward expansion.—
Abbey White,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Jan. 2025
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“Mythological.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mythological. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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