: highly regarded
an esteemed author
my esteemed colleagues
our esteemed leader/guests
He also wrote to Richard Randolph's stepfather, the esteemed lawyer St. George Tucker …—
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Garry Wills… combined his esteemed position as a barrister with an increasingly high-profile writing career …—Lucy Scholes
Lucy Scholes… William Allen White was widely esteemed as, in Life magazine's words, "An American Institution."—David M. Kennedy
David M. Kennedy… her freshman year at perhaps Virginia's most esteemed university …—Lia Russell
Lia RussellIf, as they say, I am a Man of Letters I come, like my fellows, at the tail-end of a long once esteemed tradition in English and American writing.—V. S. Pritchett
V. S. PritchettExamples of esteemed in a Sentence
concerned about his heart, my grandfather went to see an esteemed cardiac specialist
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Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Feb. 2026
In the same city where the Founders wrote the words that have guided the nation for more than two centuries, George Washington—the most esteemed of them—made a home as America’s first president.
—Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2026
Our esteemed colleague, Josh Rottenberg, was there and wrote about it.
—Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
Turning to two esteemed institutions in Berlin—the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung—the BLfD utilized the BESSY II synchrotron radiation source, LBV continued.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 15 Feb. 2026
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“Esteemed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/esteemed. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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