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miracle

[ mir-uh-kuhl ]

noun

  1. an effect or extraordinary event in the physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers and is ascribed to a supernatural cause.
  2. such an effect or event manifesting or considered as a work of God.
  3. a wonder; marvel.
  4. a wonderful or surpassing example of some quality:

    a miracle of modern acoustics.



miracle

/ ˈmɪrəkəl /

noun

  1. an event that is contrary to the established laws of nature and attributed to a supernatural cause
  2. any amazing or wonderful event
  3. a person or thing that is a marvellous example of something

    the bridge was a miracle of engineering

  4. short for miracle play
  5. modifier being or seeming a miracle

    a miracle cure



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Word History and Origins

Origin of miracle1

First recorded in 1125–75; Middle English miracle, miracul, from Old French miracle, from Latin mīrāculum, from mīrā(rī) “to wonder at” + -culum -cle 2

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Word History and Origins

Origin of miracle1

C12: from Latin mīrāculum, from mīrārī to wonder at

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Example Sentences

He was cursed and this curse had brought sorrow on all those people who loved him and maybe there was a chance for a miracle and a way for the curse to be lifted.

From Vox

So before I get too excited about squats as the new miracle cure, I’d like to see whether a few months of strength training actually reduces cramp risk in a randomized trial.

Ben Crump, the lawyer for Blake’s family, said Tuesday that it would “take a miracle” for Blake to walk again.

From Fortune

On any given day you’d find him talking in tongues in the aisles of the Co-Op Market, delivering fiery Scripture readings at the gazebo in Rinconada Park or laying hands on the elderly at Channing House and praying for miracles.

From Ozy

Given the vast number of people in need of them, artificial kidneys can’t come soon enough, and will be a miracle of modern science when they do arrive.

Just two young kids experiencing the panic, pain, and then the miracle, of new birth.

And its crew had fought so hard for a Christmastime miracle that was not to be.

And then the Vatican newspaper: “Pope performs miracle allowing Fidel to walk on water.”

His most famous miracle was making a few loaves and fishes feed a multitude.

And his second most famous miracle was turning water into wine.

But at the root of the unnatural miracles is the natural miracle—the heart of man.

That was how I learnt the strangest tale that ever a man was told, and knew the miracle to which I owed my life.

For the people generally say of him that it would be a miracle if another worse than he could be found.

That fancy dialogue about expresses the legal value of the evidence for this important miracle.

Mais particulierement encore l'exemption de maladies, qui est vn miracle tres-evident.

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