miraculous survival
Defied certain death
Miraculous survival describes escaping death or catastrophe against overwhelming odds—the kind of outcome that seems to defy natural explanation.
The phrase implies something beyond luck: a plane crash with one survivor, a child found alive after days in the wilderness.
Rescuers called it a miraculous survival after pulling her from the rubble.
The miraculous element may be literal (divine intervention) or hyperbolic (simply astonishing).
- near death experienceSurviving a life-threatening crisis
- escapeFlight from captivity
- rescueSave from harm
- against all oddsDespite extreme improbability
- luckChance affecting outcomes
against the odds · fate · dodged a bullet · narrow escape · skin of teeth · cheating death · second chance · recovery · resilience · unscathed · wreckage · trauma · battered · defying · impossible · brushed · close call · spared
- action clichesexplosion, car chase, one-liner, slow motion, shootout
- survival storiesescape story, shipwreck tales, shipwreck, plane crash, rescue story
- close callsclose call, near miss, narrow escape, close shave, nick of time
- MartyrsSaint Stephen, Saint Peter, Saint Sebastian, Saint Paul, Saint Lawrence
miraculous survivalfatality
Death from accident
tragic death · death · untimely death · perishing · loss of life
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