as in praise
strong feelings of love or admiration
They looked at the baby with adoration. The doctor has earned the adoration of his patients.
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Recent Examples of adoration
Once Venus enters Leo, however, the cosmos turns up the charm in your relationship sector, bringing attention, passion and mutual adoration.
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Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
That’s the case for the group Cabral and some 35,000 other youth belong to, Hakuna, which started in the early 2010s in a Madrid parish when a group of college students set up a weekly hour of Eucharistic adoration, preceded by a short lecture and followed by a meetup at a local bar.
—ABC News, 1 June 2026
After the meeting, Babbitt relished in the adoration of supporters who had waited nearly a decade to come to this point.
—Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 28 May 2026
New York Tendaberry, released in the fall of 1969, mostly consists of Nyro alone at the piano, delivering songs that eschewed and subverted most of the characteristics that had won her attention and adoration throughout the preceding decade.
—Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork, 24 May 2026
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Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
That’s the case for the group Cabral and some 35,000 other youth belong to, Hakuna, which started in the early 2010s in a Madrid parish when a group of college students set up a weekly hour of Eucharistic adoration, preceded by a short lecture and followed by a meetup at a local bar.
—ABC News, 1 June 2026
After the meeting, Babbitt relished in the adoration of supporters who had waited nearly a decade to come to this point.
—Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 28 May 2026
New York Tendaberry, released in the fall of 1969, mostly consists of Nyro alone at the piano, delivering songs that eschewed and subverted most of the characteristics that had won her attention and adoration throughout the preceding decade.
—Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork, 24 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adoration
Noun
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The school system received significant state and national praise for improved test scores.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
22 June 2026
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Florida’s Risk Protection Order law was never designed to win praise from gun-safety advocates.—
Christopher Carita,
The Orlando Sentinel,
21 June 2026
Noun
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The consequences are admiration, trust and loyalty—earned, not commanded.—
Luis E. Romero,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
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Lan traced his instinct toward stories rooted in place and personal memory to his admiration for Taiwan filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
19 June 2026
Noun
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The reverence these five musicians have for Smith’s songs is readily apparent.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 June 2026
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The Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands said the wreck was considered a war grave and would not be excavated out of reverence for the victims and their families.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
18 June 2026
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But a little preparation and a healthy respect for wildlife can make all the difference between a great story to tell and a story that ends up on the evening news.—
Amber Harding OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
16 June 2026
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Horror still fights for respect, box office success still gets dismissed as commercial rather than artistic, and a movie made by a YouTube creator will face every condescension the awards ecosystem can muster.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
15 June 2026
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“Adoration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adoration. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.
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