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"It's an enduring myth that money brings happiness.",
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"The Antaeus myth is one of many that eerily parallel our current predicament. \u2014 Lily Houston Smith, The Atlantic , 23 June 2022",
"Another myth is that people with social anxiety avoid the spotlight. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 22 May 2022",
"The ever-expanding myth is frustrating, because the real story is so much better. \u2014 Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle , 4 May 2022",
"This myth is that AI will always be unbiased and neutral. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 2 May 2022",
"And although the myth is dead, war watchers said its spread raised questions over how information is processed in a war where journalists have struggled to access the front lines. \u2014 NBC News , 2 May 2022",
"The myth is that this bill is going to fix that problem. ... \u2014 Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant , 28 Apr. 2022",
"The model minority myth is a stereotype started in the civil rights movement (era) by an American White sociologist. \u2014 Julia M. Chan, CNN , 15 Mar. 2022",
"Placed in its historical context, this myth of antifascism, anti-Nazism and anti-Zionism is far more than rhetoric. \u2014 Juliana Geran Pilon, WSJ , 11 Mar. 2022"
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"Mostly because the annual event marks not the destruction of San Francisco but its rebirth, a special place that rose from the ashes, like the phoenix, a mythical bird that is one of the symbols of the city. \u2014 Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 Apr. 2021",
"Claires Danes stars in a six-episode period drama about a widow who discovers that her new home in Essex is reportedly home to a mythical creature. \u2014 oregonlive , 15 May 2022",
"The Essex Serpent, about a widow who befriends a priest in her new hometown that has a mythical creature in its waters. \u2014 Ew Staff, EW.com , 13 May 2022",
"La Salle named the ship Le Griffon, after the mythical creature whose body of a lion has the head and wings of an eagle. \u2014 Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press , 11 May 2022",
"This dog breed kind of looks like a cross between a dog, a pony, and a mythical creature. \u2014 Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day , 3 May 2022",
"Knowing this keeps a certain alluring appeal to the mythical creature of the entrepreneur; never to be truly understood, but always to be admired. \u2014 Josephine Kant, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The Aztec ruler took his name from the name of a mythical creature that lived near lakes and in swamps. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 17 Mar. 2022"
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"Like the mythical bird, this superyacht is rising from the ashes of its humble, commercial-vessel past and could soon become a modern explorer yacht. \u2014 Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report , 4 June 2021",
"Mostly because the annual event marks not the destruction of San Francisco but its rebirth, a special place that rose from the ashes, like the phoenix, a mythical bird that is one of the symbols of the city. \u2014 Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle , 17 Apr. 2021",
"Claires Danes stars in a six-episode period drama about a widow who discovers that her new home in Essex is reportedly home to a mythical creature. \u2014 oregonlive , 15 May 2022",
"The Essex Serpent, about a widow who befriends a priest in her new hometown that has a mythical creature in its waters. \u2014 Ew Staff, EW.com , 13 May 2022",
"La Salle named the ship Le Griffon, after the mythical creature whose body of a lion has the head and wings of an eagle. \u2014 Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press , 11 May 2022",
"This dog breed kind of looks like a cross between a dog, a pony, and a mythical creature. \u2014 Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day , 3 May 2022",
"Knowing this keeps a certain alluring appeal to the mythical creature of the entrepreneur; never to be truly understood, but always to be admired. \u2014 Josephine Kant, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022",
"The Aztec ruler took his name from the name of a mythical creature that lived near lakes and in swamps. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 17 Mar. 2022"
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"Yaguello recounts the utopian impulses behind projects like Esperanto and Volap\u00fck; speculative fiction\u2019s explorations of linguistic theory; and the search, rooted in Judeo-Christian mythology , for an original, universal tongue. \u2014 The New Yorker , 27 June 2022",
"That water is a focal point, and the resort takes its name from an aquatic creature in Turkish mythology that\u2019s similar to a mermaid. \u2014 Ann Abel, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
"Portrayed as legendary women in ancient mythology , the women were photographed in a secret location that satisfied Graff\u2019s demanding brief. \u2014 Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report , 3 May 2022",
"Staff at the ministry concluded that the head belonged to a statue of Anat, the goddess of love, beauty and war in Canaanite mythology , said Rida. \u2014 Zeena Saifi, CNN , 27 Apr. 2022",
"In Egyptian mythology , Taweret was generally considered a protective deity and was at times associated with childbirth. \u2014 Tracy Brownstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 20 Apr. 2022",
"For all its sprinklings of pixie dust \u2014 a wiggly scorpion samba, a cyclone of flying pastries \u2014 the movie is often disconcertingly adult, and at the same time, largely unconcerned with welcoming in viewers not already steeped in the mythology . \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 7 Apr. 2022",
"In Jewish mythology , Leviathan was a primordial sea serpent, something malevolent, chaotic, uncontrollable, and beyond human comprehension. \u2014 Joseph Loconte, National Review , 2 Apr. 2022",
"Certainly the surrounding coast \u2014 part of the Lazio region, and sometimes referred to as the Costa Pontina \u2014 factors into the history and mythology of both eras. \u2014 Maria Shollenbarger, Travel + Leisure , 20 June 2022"
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"The mythos around the character of Ethel Cain is long enough to fill a novel or a film \u2014 or, in Anhed\u00f6nia\u2019s case, a concept album. \u2014 Stephen Daw, Billboard , 12 May 2022",
"Given that this new series takes place between two movie trilogies, there are a ton of references and allusions to the wider Star Wars mythos , all of which have been detailed in a new video on the Heavy Spoilers channel. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 29 May 2022",
"Ice also undoes the Soviet mythos of man triumphing over nature, particularly in the Arctic, that tends to appear in science fiction. \u2014 Jennifer Wilson, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 25 May 2022",
"For Kai, being on camera both feeds his mythos and undergirds his business model. \u2014 William Finnegan, The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
"Composer Anthony Davis wrote the music and weaved in various influences, from the grand mythos of Richard Wagner to the cosmic utopianism of Sun Ra. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 20 May 2022",
"Miramax is said to have exited, torpedoing what would have been a modern take on the mythos . \u2014 Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter , 18 Apr. 2022",
"This story has become part of the mythos of one of the greatest stars of the classic Hollywood era. \u2014 Racquel Gates, CNN , 10 May 2022",
"The Kinane incident has since become legend, a cornerstone of the Des Moines comedy mythos that is embellished and passed down to new members of their sect in the wee hours when the empties stack up and the tales grow taller. \u2014 Lee Keeler, SPIN , 10 May 2022"
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"Please don\u2019t mythologize the lifestyle of someone who is lost and in pain. \u2014 Dan Koeppel, Outside Online , 5 Sep. 2019",
"The story, illustrating an iconic web of connection between The Kar-Jenners\u2019 predecessors, swiftly counters any implication that Kris\u2019s reflex to mythologize life is frivolous. \u2014 Vogue , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Here\u2019s a historical figure who\u2019s been a lightning rod in the debate over colonialism and its impact on indigenous peoples, but 1492 chooses to mythologize rather than interrogate. \u2014 Scott Tobias, Vulture , 15 Oct. 2021",
"Contemporary accounts tend to mythologize the brief life of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who rocketed from New York City\u2019s underground graffiti culture to worldwide acclaim before dying of a heroin overdose at just 27 years old. \u2014 Nora Mcgreevy, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 Nov. 2020",
"The decision to portray a character like Jin, a 13th century warrior, in the same way that Japan would later mythologize the samurai for nationalistic purposes is worth discussing. \u2014 Reid Mccarter, Washington Post , 14 Aug. 2020",
"Around the world, there are early signs that some of the emergency measures Wall Street is rolling out to keep employees safe in a pandemic will become a lasting practice in an industry that\u2019s long mythologized the handshake. \u2014 Katia Porzecanski, Bloomberg.com , 5 May 2020",
"Had Jackson French succeeded in publishing her results, DiSavino argues, the study of Appalachian balladry might have been redirected from mythologizing about racial purity into something more accurate and inclusive. \u2014 Lidija Haas, Harper's Magazine , 27 Apr. 2020",
"Subsequent events have demonstrated the older generation of Zimbabweans have auto- mythologized the event. \u2014 Olu Alake, Quartz Africa , 18 Apr. 2020"
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"V\u00e9h\u00e9mence made this record to recount mythological strifes of old. \u2014 Spin Staff, SPIN , 7 June 2022",
"On the evening of June 6, Martha Stewart; Marni\u2019s creative director, Francesco Risso; the interior designer Kelly Wearstler and many others headed to the same place: a Milanese garden with a mythological feel. \u2014 New York Times , 7 June 2022",
"Her thoughts often drift to the mythological site and Arthurian legend that give the novel its title. \u2014 Jake Cline, Washington Post , 27 May 2022",
"His subjects ranged from portraits to mythological tales to landscapes. \u2014 Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine , 24 May 2022",
"Their mascot is Finn McCool, a mythological god-like titan from a pre-Christian era. \u2014 Brian T. Brown, NBC News , 15 May 2022",
"It is topped with ancient mythological figures, including the sarimanok, a bird that guides the harvest seasons, and the naga, a serpent-like dragon associated with lunar and solar eclipses. \u2014 Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times , 7 May 2022",
"Elvis Presley, with the exception of the Beatles, is the most mythological figure in the history of popular music. \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 25 May 2022"
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"The story, illustrating an iconic web of connection between The Kar-Jenners\u2019 predecessors, swiftly counters any implication that Kris\u2019s reflex to mythologize life is frivolous. \u2014 Vogue , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Here\u2019s a historical figure who\u2019s been a lightning rod in the debate over colonialism and its impact on indigenous peoples, but 1492 chooses to mythologize rather than interrogate. \u2014 Scott Tobias, Vulture , 15 Oct. 2021",
"Contemporary accounts tend to mythologize the brief life of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who rocketed from New York City\u2019s underground graffiti culture to worldwide acclaim before dying of a heroin overdose at just 27 years old. \u2014 Nora Mcgreevy, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 Nov. 2020",
"The decision to portray a character like Jin, a 13th century warrior, in the same way that Japan would later mythologize the samurai for nationalistic purposes is worth discussing. \u2014 Reid Mccarter, Washington Post , 14 Aug. 2020",
"Around the world, there are early signs that some of the emergency measures Wall Street is rolling out to keep employees safe in a pandemic will become a lasting practice in an industry that\u2019s long mythologized the handshake. \u2014 Katia Porzecanski, Bloomberg.com , 5 May 2020",
"Had Jackson French succeeded in publishing her results, DiSavino argues, the study of Appalachian balladry might have been redirected from mythologizing about racial purity into something more accurate and inclusive. \u2014 Lidija Haas, Harper's Magazine , 27 Apr. 2020",
"Subsequent events have demonstrated the older generation of Zimbabweans have auto- mythologized the event. \u2014 Olu Alake, Quartz Africa , 18 Apr. 2020"
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"Contrary to popular myth , no monster lives in this lake.",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Even as a heap of rot, Nana is Venus, a stream of gold, a myth . \u2014 Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books , 6 July 2022",
"But this is a myth with only 18% of tech employees preferring remote work, according to a new study. \u2014 Tracy Brower, Forbes , 28 June 2022",
"There is a myth that the Republican drive to impeach Clinton prevented the president from accomplishing great things in his second term. \u2014 Walter Shapiro, The New Republic , 27 June 2022",
"That's another myth that dermatologists can easily debunk. \u2014 Lauren Burwell, Allure , 27 June 2022",
"There's a myth that yellow jackets like to sting, Ray says. \u2014 Bethany Brookshire, Good Housekeeping , 18 June 2022",
"There\u2019s a myth out there that only local credit unions can bank cannabis, but that\u2019s not the case. \u2014 Peter Su, Rolling Stone , 14 June 2022",
"There is a popular myth that ADHD is caused by our individual brain chemistry, or can be genetically inherited. \u2014 Dr Sanah Ahsan, refinery29.com , 6 June 2022",
"This meaning may have its roots in a Greek myth about Hera, the wife of Zeus. \u2014 Emma Dibdin, Town & Country , 18 May 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"No, that means understanding and letting yourself be inspired by that work without mythicizing it. \u2014 New York Times , 27 Feb. 2020",
"Karl Zschaetzsch, Edmund Kiss and Albert Herrmann\u2014found in Atlantis the roots of the Aryans later mythicized by Hitler. \u2014 James Romm, WSJ , 4 Oct. 2018"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"This new volume confirms that Tolkien was the 20th century\u2019s greatest mythmaker , and that his mythology will \u2014 if there is justice in the world \u2014 rank someday with that of Homer, Virgil, and Dante. \u2014 Bradley J. Birzer, National Review , 26 Sep. 2021",
"Stanley was a cultural mythmaker of rare inspiration. \u2014 Adam Shatz, The New York Review of Books , 29 Sep. 2020",
"But this was at cross purposes with the larger intent of the exhibition, which is to extricate Lautrec from his reputation as the quintessential mythmaker of Montmartre and the racy side of Belle \u00c9poque Paris. \u2014 Philip Kennicott, Washington Post , 12 Nov. 2019",
"Fans of the Christian mythmaker owe his son a considerable debt. \u2014 Nr Editors, National Review , 23 Jan. 2020",
"Early leaders were not as ideologically bold as later mythmakers think. \u2014 Ganesh Sitaraman, The New Republic , 23 Dec. 2019",
"But the compromise also etched battle lines between Davis and Rozelle and, by extension, put Davis on the wrong side of NFL mythmakers . \u2014 Jon Wertheim, SI.com , 27 Aug. 2019",
"Quoting from reminiscences without interrogation or corroboration can be particularly problematic in the case of Mabel, a compulsive mythmaker who would change the dates of events in her diary to suit her side of a sad story. \u2014 Brenda Wineapple, WSJ , 25 Oct. 2018",
"But Holmes was no slouch: a facile mythmaker who brooked no dissent and presided over the workplace from hell. \u2014 Stephen Phillips, SFChronicle.com , 22 June 2018"
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"1856, in the meaning defined above":""
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220712-173744"
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