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as in adored
to love or admire too much
it's ridiculous how she adulates that airheaded rock star
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as in applauded
to praise too much
a business executive who unwisely surrounds herself with incompetent assistants who spend all their time adulating her
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Recent Examples of adulated
Turkey’s TB2s became adulated in Ukraine for striking Russian tanks advancing on Kyiv at the start of that war in early 2022.
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Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for adulated
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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
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Graham not only brings the experience, but also the natural leadership experience to a franchise where he is adored.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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The Egyptian attacker briefly applauded Liverpool’s jubilant away end inside Deutsche Bank Park after the final whistle before turning and making a beeline for the tunnel as the celebrations continued.—
James Pearce,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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Meantime, the analyst applauded AppLovin’s expansion into e-commerce advertising, which has a total addressable market that is multiple times the size of the mobile game in-app advertising market.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
22 Oct. 2025
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Petite shoppers have also praised it.—
Rylee Johnston,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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The new construction and shape was nearly unanimously praised, although many fans took issue with the style’s limited availability.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
22 Oct. 2025
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Sanskrit speakers worshipped Dyaus Pitr, or Sky Father.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Hermes Trismegistus was the god of the occult and magic, worshipped by the ancient Greeks in the Ptolemaic Kingdom.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Oct. 2025
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Several Love Is Blind and Perfect Match alums congratulated the couple in the comments section.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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Brett Favre took to social media on X and congratulated Love on his performance.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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But in tech, where founders are idolized yet structurally undercapitalized as individuals, the idea is both obvious and overdue.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
15 Oct. 2025
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Ed idolized Augusta and was disturbed that Henry, who often criticized and argued against her strict teachings, had much less admiration for her.—
Jordana Comiter,
PEOPLE,
6 Oct. 2025
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Bibbs commended Mason Nichols for filling in for him.—
Cody Thorn,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 Oct. 2025
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Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro commended Springer for playing through his injury.—
Aaliyan Mohammed,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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She was particularly flattered by a recurring nod in Prime Video‘s Overcompensating, which featured a cameo from Fox.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
23 Oct. 2025
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Several other commenters confessed they would be flattered if someone asked for their phone number.—
Latoya Gayle,
PEOPLE,
18 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Adulated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adulated. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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