adulate

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Recent Examples of adulate Turkey’s TB2s became adulated in Ukraine for striking Russian tanks advancing on Kyiv at the start of that war in early 2022. Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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Verb
  • One of Indiana's peskiest invasive plants, oriental bittersweet, was bought, sold and adored for almost 100 years in the United States before horticulturists started to raise concerns about the species.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Clara adores them, and rightly so.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Markle publicly congratulated the couple and liked Swift’s Instagram announcement of her engagement to Kelce.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Deputy prime minister Simon Harris also congratulated Connolly for her victory which is expected to be formally announced later on Saturday.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • There is no discernible border; residents live, work and worship interchangeably between the two towns.
    Erika Edwards, NBC news, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Sanskrit speakers worshipped Dyaus Pitr, or Sky Father.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Earlier in the day, Knowles spoke with Sherri Shepherd on the Sherri show, and praised Blue Ivy for performing onstage with her mother in front of crowds of 70,000 people per night.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Nagy says Takaichi will likely praise Trump on his immigration policy, which has involved pursuing mass deportations and tightening restrictions on legal immigration.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • There’s a lot to like about the way the Sabres have played, though.
    Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Choi likes to precut carrots, celery, onions and fennel.
    Malaka Gharib, NPR, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Boss also applauded the managing team of Five Below for their strong direction and recent strategic initiatives.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Their remaining team-mates applauded the away enclosure, but many in that section were gesticulating their disdain.
    Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro commended Springer for playing through his injury.
    Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Some food activists have commended the move.
    Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The result is sometimes overpraising, overprotection, and overindulging children, mixing emotional intensity with economic privilege in ways that breed entitlement.
    Christine Michel Carter, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • 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

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“Adulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adulate. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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