deified

past tense of deify
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Verb
  • More often, the stakes are elevated thanks to greater use of physical sets and in-camera effects than in previous installments.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Gordon said that Kershaw elevated his teammates with his performance.
    Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • One parent tester of a 10 month old adored everything about this simple, but special toy.
    Pamela Brill, Parents, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Besides the delicious sandwiches, the mango and papaya parfait was particularly delightful and light, and the chocolate cake came adored with a pink butterfly.
    Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • The site is retired from active worship but still venerated.
    Jack Tydeman, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • All eight of Jelly Roll’s singles promoted to country radio have now gone the distance, extending his perfect record on Country Airplay.
    Russ Penuell, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2025
  • And what about the relationship between Firehouse Chief Dom Pascal (Dermot Mulroney), who had a highly contentious relationship with his team after taking it over last season from the promoted, and beloved Chief Wallace Boden (Eamonn Walker)?
    Demetrius Patterson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Quote of the day Shakya’s 2-year-old daughter, Aryatara, was chosen in Nepal as the new living goddess worshipped by both Hindus and Buddhists.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Rulers on the Nile did not rely solely on their own human powers but worshipped and propitiated a natural world that was alive with gods.
    Vanessa Taylor, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • While knowledge has been exalted by artists, poets, philosophers and scientists, dictatorships have been opposed not only by great humanists but also by science itself.
    Davide Sartini, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The Founding Fathers idolized Cincinnatus, who was appointed dictator to save the Roman Republic, then peacefully returned to his fields.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara said that the suspect, identified as 23-year-old Robin Westman, appeared to have idolized many of the mass shooters who had gone before them.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
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“Deified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deified. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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