as in to adore
to love or admire too much
doted on her only grandchild
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He was so adored, in fact, that Levinson kept him on after his character was originally meant to die at the end of season 1.—
Jane LaCroix,
PEOPLE,
12 Apr. 2026 -
But Reef is also five years sober from a destructive heroin addiction that the adoring public thankfully is unaware of.—
Josh Spiegel,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Apr. 2026
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There’s even a Sikh gurdwara on-site for the staff and anyone else who wants to visit or worship.—
David Williams,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
13 Apr. 2026
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One raunchy session from 1975 with a lover named Mike Karton begins with Peter worshipping Karton’s jockstrap in his Second Avenue loft.—
Andrew Durbin,
Vulture,
13 Apr. 2026
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Even if the taxes were suspended, their reinstatement could hit drivers at a bad time, and no one likes to see taxes go up again, Hoffer said.—
Kathryn Watson,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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It was coined by friends&, a Canadian blogger-musician who really likes coining things, and whose label, dawk26, doubles as a conceptual testing ground.—
Samuel Hyland,
Pitchfork,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Dote (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dote%20%28on%29. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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