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Meanwhile, Jupiter — exalted in Cancer — brings expansion to themes of intuition, emotional intelligence, family bonds and home life.
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Onstage, Michael is exalted, transfigured, fully alive, with neither fear nor shame.
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The incarnation dignified the material world, which is good, though in constant need of repair and healing.
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This deeply affecting memoir, which is strung like a wire between the alienation of the assembly line and the dignifying promise of literature, documents his experience.
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Jay Cooke, who had once been lionized for his role in financing the Union victory, was attacked in the press and accused of cheating ordinary Americans out of their savings.
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Popular culture really likes to lionize chosen families.
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After her death she was canonized by the Catholic Church and recognized as the patron saint of immigrants.
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Early reports of the relationship between the Marists and the parish canonize it as a perfect match.
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Shazeer is widely revered as one of the key architects of the modern generative AI boom.
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Though Greenspan was revered among Wall Streeters at the time, Grant’s critical review of Greenspan’s legacy warned of the imbalances and bubbles that were forming in equities and debt—years before the Great Recession that was to come.
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Written with the intimacy of a conversation among loved ones, Someday, Now invites readers to sit with loss while still reverencing the beauty of life, parenting, and letting our children flourish.
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But Pi is precociously enlightened, his innocence not a problem to be rectified but a quality to be reverenced.
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The Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, a monastery with emblematic golden domes, is venerated by both the Russian and Ukrainian wings of the Orthodox Church as one of their most important spiritual centers.
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Olivier was venerated as a Shakespearean actor, playing many iconic protagonists in London including Hamlet, Henry V, Macbeth and, controversially, Othello.
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“Apotheosize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apotheosize. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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