Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
phoenix , especially in being (figuratively) reborn after destruction.
Etymologies
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Examples
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At least the late publisher William Gaines's MAD magazine -- having risen phoenixlike from the ashes of that witch hunt -- survives to smile a gap-toothed grin at today's news and reply smugly: "What, me worry?"
QUICK POST: Only 56 years later, the CCA seal of censorship is dead Michael Cavna 2011
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The offending work was a piece from Condo's suite of Kanye portraits in which a fearsome Kanye, pictured naked, sits straddled by a nude, phoenixlike, winged woman-creature.
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The first season of Game of Thrones came to a fiery conclusion, and although we lost a major player in the game, another was reborn, phoenixlike, from the ashes of a funeral pyre.
Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke on the Fiery Finale: "Dragons Trump Everything" 2011
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The first season of Game of Thrones came to a fiery conclusion, and although we lost a major player in the game, another was reborn, phoenixlike, from the ashes of a funeral pyre.
Game of Thrones' Emilia Clarke on the Fiery Finale: "Dragons Trump Everything" 2011
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This DNA copy, called a provirus, makes RNA copies, and the virus is regenerated, phoenixlike, to form new viruses.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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What needed to be done, Stein said, was to make another Germany, a phoenixlike place that might rise from the ashes as a wholly new thing.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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This DNA copy, called a provirus, makes RNA copies, and the virus is regenerated, phoenixlike, to form new viruses.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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This DNA copy, called a provirus, makes RNA copies, and the virus is regenerated, phoenixlike, to form new viruses.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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They rise, phoenixlike, from the ashes of the '80s, those pricey toys of yesteryear: the Rolex you took snorkeling off Cancun, the BMW you gave yourself after closing that first sweetheart deal, the set of Nagel seriographs.
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He had enacted the adventure of vanishing into thin air and being reborn, phoenixlike, as someone else - literally, a self-made man.
Recortes Artur 2008
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