as in to exalt
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Weeping delights in the exalted, the sublime, the magnificent — a symphony, a vista, megafauna, even a brilliant dissertation.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
23 Sep. 2025 -
In developing proprietary colors and in-house embroideries, the late founder set a template that Shukla is exalting.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
22 Sep. 2025
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Jericho, unswayed by the use of his first name, did not dignify this question with an answer.—
Catherine Lacey,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
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The recognizing states will have to step up, too, by making their security guarantees concrete and by helping shape a Palestinian state that does not threaten its neighbors and dignifies its people by providing functioning institutions and proper services.—
SHIRA EFRON,
Foreign Affairs,
23 Sep. 2025
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The movie’s frank depiction of Mishima’s bisexual obsessions and radical political drive, not to mention the involvement of foreign filmmakers like Schrader, Coppola and Lucas, drew a boycott from Mishima’s widow and incensed the ultra-right-wing political groups that continued to lionize him.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Oct. 2025
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Progressives should condemn these killers and do whatever is in their power to push back on the voices that lionize them, and the toxic social media algorithms that boost those voices.—
Michelle Goldberg,
Mercury News,
27 Sep. 2025
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Hip-hop never should've relied on a TV network to canonize the culture.—
Rodney Carmichael,
NPR,
1 Oct. 2025
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Though their relationship remained largely implied throughout the series, it was officially canonized… in the very last episode of the show.—
James Factora,
Them.,
26 Sep. 2025
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At once revered and a little feared, AI is the industry’s shiny new toy and buzzword.—
Lauren Parker,
Sourcing Journal,
1 Oct. 2025
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As a schoolgirl, Muriel was revered by staff and pupils alike.—
Frances Wilson
September 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Sep. 2025
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But Pi is precociously enlightened, his innocence not a problem to be rectified but a quality to be reverenced.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2025
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But Trump also reverenced the tough job Emmer has in keeping the GOP majority together, with which Emmer is all too familiar after the chaotic last two years.—
Emily Brooks,
The Hill,
3 Feb. 2025
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For all their differences in background, temperament, and approaches to art, Matisse and Picasso both venerated Cézanne, Delacroix, Manet, and van Gogh.—
Christopher C. Gorham
September 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
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In this way, such war memorials are not only about revering soldiers but also venerating the nation-state.—
Kerry Whigham,
The Conversation,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Apotheosize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apotheosize. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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