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Examples of hagiographic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Even in 1992, post-colonial sentiment was such that Scott’s treatment seemed weirdly hagiographic. Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023 Russian missile strike kills at least 10 in Lviv, far from front line This week’s hagiographic effort was a mawkish video released by the Kremlin on Tuesday of Putin meeting an 8-year-old Derbent girl summoned to his office. Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 8 July 2023 All this is well known, yet Ali’s examination remains an important corrective to the hagiographic praise that Churchill receives to this day. Tariq Ali, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023 Party presses published hagiographic accounts of his life. Time, 16 June 2023 See all Example Sentences for hagiographic 

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“Hagiographic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hagiographic. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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