adulate

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Verb
  • His final appearance at Allianz Parque against Sporting Cristal in May was marked with the emotional presentation of a poster and a plaque, a goal and an assist, and a standing ovation from his adoring fans.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 19 June 2025
  • Those more interested in a classic floral scent, however, will adore Gucci Bloom—a sophisticated blend of tuberose, jasmine, and Rangoon creeper.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 19 June 2025
Verb
  • Fellow actors congratulated the couple in the comments section.
    Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 23 June 2025
  • Vice President Vance, a veteran and frequent skeptic of foreign intervention, congratulated the troops and others involved in the strike on Sunday morning.
    Colin Meyn, The Hill, 22 June 2025
Verb
  • The soccer star in question, of course, was a certain Lionel Andrés Messi, for whom the masses had made their pilgrimage to worship, as his Inter Miami took on Portuguese giant FC Porto in the second matchday of Group A.
    Glen Levy, CNN Money, 20 June 2025
  • The group argued that allowing Oak Flat, a place where the Apache have worshiped for generations, to be destroyed would have significant religious freedom implications.
    Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 27 May 2025
Verb
  • The viral TikTok video has amassed over 1,000 comments already, as many social-media users praised the adorable bond that Peach and Bear have.
    Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
  • Sonko also praised China in his statement on Friday.
    Rebecca Tauber, New York Times, 20 June 2025
Verb
  • And there are other reasons to be sanguine about the slide away from books, given what so many of us actually like to read.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 17 June 2025
  • Truth be told, customers like to peruse the shop in Mount Vernon, if only to hear the good-natured banter between Sklar and Massey.
    Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 17 June 2025
Verb
  • President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth applaud during attend a military parade commemorating the Army's 250th anniversary, coinciding with his 79th birthday, Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Washington.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 June 2025
  • Kennedy applauded Little and the other governors in a separate news release from USDA.
    Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 11 June 2025
Verb
  • While Anthropic should be commended for telling the truth, eliminating such assistance for terrorism should not be left up to any one party.
    Steven Stalinsky, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
  • Netflix should be commended for respecting France’s extensive streaming regulation, the President of Lupin producer Gaumont Television France said today at Conecta Fiction.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 17 June 2025
Verb
  • Know-nothings pretend that Schrader’s Bressonian mannerisms reveal the spiritual depths of contemporary crisis, when, in fact, Master Gardener repeats the same social-collapse paranoia that made secular reviewers overpraise the religious, racial, suicide-bomber topics of First Reformed.
    Armond White, National Review, 24 May 2023
  • He’s overpraised of course.
    Nick Laird, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2023
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“Adulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adulate. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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