Babylonian

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Recent Examples of Babylonian Cristina lounges about between scenes in velvet frocks and jackets, tended by a criminally obliging doctor, like a figure from Hollywood’s Babylonian era. Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2025 The Code of Hammurabi, a Babylonian legal code, according to History, contains one of the earliest beliefs that Friday the 13th is unlucky because a 13th law was omitted from its list of legal rules. Zach Bradshaw, The Arizona Republic, 13 Dec. 2024 The application includes the complete Babylonian Talmud, the five books of the Torah, the six books of the Mishnah and dozens of other Jewish books and writings. Daniel Edelson, Sun Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2024 Ethan Hawke's true-crime writer finds a box of Super 8 home movies in his attic, playing them and consequently putting his family in grave danger thanks to the appearance of a Babylonian deity named Bughuul. 39. Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024 The four tablets analyzed in the new study date to the middle and late Old Babylonian periods (circa 1894 to 1595 B.C.E.), some 4,000 years ago. Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Aug. 2024 The formula for its hero product, a natural soap housed in refillable glass bottles, is inspired by 5,000-year-old Babylonian recipes. Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2024 This verse seems to invoke the Babylonian custom of tattooing servants. Gustavo Morello, The Conversation, 10 July 2024 During his reign in the sixth century BC, Cyrus the Great—Kourosh in Persian, Koresh in Hebrew—was famous for having liberated the Jews from Babylonian captivity. Ali M. Ansari, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2024
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Adjective
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Adjective
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Adjective
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    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2025
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    Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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    Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
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    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2025

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“Babylonian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Babylonian. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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