as in adoring
to love or admire too much
doted on her only grandchild
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Celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg, Lauryn Hill and Joey Bada$$ sat in the front row, and several small children walked alongside older models, sparking adoring coos from the audience.—
Anika Reed,
USA Today,
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Their adoring fourteen-year-old daughter, Hedvig (Maaike Laanstra-Corn), believes her layabout father to be a great inventor, but this, too, is a comforting lie.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
18 Sep. 2025
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Many in the crowd stood worshipping with their hands in the air.—
Alexandra Hutzler,
ABC News,
21 Sep. 2025
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But something timely right now is the parasocial relationship with celebrity and the difference between supporting somebody and worshiping somebody.—
Brian Davids,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Doting (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doting%20%28on%29. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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