liminal in English

adjective
1
of or relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process.
Through a ritual process, centered upon a liminal stage of revelation and testing, the evangelist shows Jesus' true identity as a holy man, capable of brokering God's patronage on his people.
2
occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.
Facts about the direction of one's attention occupy a curiously liminal position in respect to the divide between the rational and the non-rational in our psychological lives.

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1. DSC_5307 [ps] - Liminal Band by Anyhoo

2. "Bardo" means limbo, a liminal place, between worlds, between lives

3. LAVAL, QC and CAMBRIDGE, England, March 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Liminal Biosciences Inc

4. The author also discusses CCR Algebras, but he calls them "liminal" Algebras

5. Moody, liminal, rather pulsing with mystique, Aviaries thread the three strands of new-wave, post-punk and shoegaze

6. (Nasdaq: LMNL) ("Liminal Biosciences" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today

7. The theory of liminal Algebras is of upmost importance in applications to quantum physics (physicists still call them CCR Algebras)

8. The Caucasus mountains bound the Middle East on the north, and the real Caucasians are to some extent a liminal Middle Eastern population

9. Liminal Biosciences is a global clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing novel treatments for patients suffering from diseases with a high unmet medical need

10. Reminiscent of Bruno Schulz’s Street of Crocodiles, Oleg Woolf’s Bessarabian Stamps — a cycle of sixteen stories set mostly in the village of Sănduleni — is a vivid, surreal evocation of a liminal world

11. Sharing its name with the French term for the liminal moment linking late afternoon and early evening, Cinq à Sept brings the intriguing tension between day and night to a new advanced contemporary collection.

12. Borderless is committed to curating a series of innovative, experimental, interdisciplinary titles that center decoloniality and transborder solidarity, that bring to the forefront marginalized voices and knowledges, and that recognize borders as liminal spaces where transformation is possible

13. ‘This play between liminal and subliminal is an Accustomed part of a novelist's technique.’ ‘These are the poems of a man casting his Accustomed cultural archaeological gaze on himself.’ ‘Harry was already sleeping in his Accustomed place and, unusually, Dolly came up to rest near my feet.’

14. Bowerbird and The Rotunda are pleased to announce Liminal States, a new series of late night, live streamed concerts intended to be listened to as you fall asleep.Aiming to center and calm, the musicians will seek to lead listeners to that magic space between awake and asleep

15. ‘This play between liminal and subliminal is an Accustomed part of a novelist's technique.’ ‘These are the poems of a man casting his Accustomed cultural archaeological gaze on himself.’ ‘Harry was already sleeping in his Accustomed place and, unusually, Dolly came up to rest near my feet.’

16. Careen is a battlefield of conflicting desires, a place where words are dragged from the liminal engine of Grace’s ‘kinetically charged’ soul into the broad daylight of racial politics.A place where it’s impossible to dodge the inevitable bullets aimed at whiteness and its whitened landscape