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It was a revelation to me. Until they gave us those tests, I had no idea that I was better than most people at clerical accuracy.revelation = something surprising and previously unknown
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She addressed reporters after the revelation of her previous conviction.revelation = learning of something that was previously kept secret
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I was leaning toward voting for her, but her stance on education policy was a revelation to me.revelation = something surprising and previously unknown
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Like most humans in the grip of revelation, Hans Hubermann stood with a certain numbness. (source)revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
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I mean, to me this was a major revelation, and he was acting like it was no big deal. (source)
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The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive. (source)
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IN THE WAKE OF the Josh revelation, I'd forgotten all about Kitty. (source)revelation = something previously unknown; or making such a thing known
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And then the cascade of revelations began, just as it had for Edgar.† (source)
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It was as revelatory, exciting, intense, and surreal as Mayor Schmoke promised.† (source)
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Despite this morning's revelation about Peeta's character, I'm actually relieved when he shows up, dressed in an identical costume. (source)
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Maybe he's had some revelations lately, too.† (source)
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But there were several, and this was the most revelatory.† (source)
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You know that part in An Imperial Affliction when Anna's walking across the football field to go to PE or whatever and she falls and goes face-first into the grass and that's when she knows that the cancer is back and in her nervous system and she can't get up and her face is like an inch from the football-field grass and she's just stuck there looking at this grass up close, noticing the way the light hits it and ....I don't remember the line but it's something like Anna having the Whitmanesque revelation that the definition of humanness is the opportunity to marvel at the majesty of creation or whatever. (source)
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The revelations about the jail seemed to raise the stakes in this trial.† (source)
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The incident was important only because it was self-revelatory.† (source)
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This was an alarming revelation. (source)
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That evening he read aloud from the Bible, familiar passages from Isaiah, Luke, and the Book of Revelation, about wars and rumors of wars. (source)Revelation = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
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Sophie tilted her head and scanned the list of titles: THE TEMPLAR REVELATION: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ THE WOMAN WITH THE ALABASTER JAR: Mary Magdalene and the Holy Grail THE GODDESS IN THE GOSPELS Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine "Here is perhaps the best-known tome," Teabing said, pulling a tattered hardcover from the stack and handing it to her. (source)
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Sometimes, just before sundown, just as the blue of the sky began darkening to violet, we had these wild, electric-lined, Maxfield Parrish clouds rolling out gold and white into the desert like Divine Revelation leading the Mormons west. (source)
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I thought of the battle described in the book of Revelation, and my heartbeat stepped up a notch. (source)Revelation = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
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Her eyes were hot, as if she had just sat down and read the Book of Revelations straight through. (source)Revelations = a book of The Bible
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Aristotle goes only part of the way because he didn't know of the Christian revelation. (source)revelation = things made known religiously rather than logically
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I sat just as still as I could and the text was Revelations, third chapter, second and third verses. (source)Revelations = a book of The Bible
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I thought I had part of the Book of Ecclesiastes and maybe a little of Revelation, but I haven't even that now. (source)Revelation = a book in the Christian and Hebrew Bibles
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And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up…. If any man have an ear, let him hear. --REVELATION 13:1 (source)
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That looks a lot like the fourth horseman, the one who in Revelation rides the pale (or green) horse and whose name is Death. (source)
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Chipper had, after all, eaten the family Bible the winter before, chewed right through it from Genesis to Revelation, shredding generations of inscribed Hickams in the process. (source)
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They love Daniel and Revelation, and seem to forget that Second Corinthians is even a chapter in the good book. (source)
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And now, with the End of the World at hand, and the skies darkening at dawn, and the fires of Revelation raining down and setting the rigging ablaze, Captain Roberts tied himself to the ship's wheel as the sea rose below him and felt the Sweet Judy lifted into the sky as if by some almighty hand. (source)
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