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as in to elevate
to assign a high status or value to
popular support and media hype have exalted Super Bowl Sunday to the level of a national holiday
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as in to celebrate
to proclaim the glory of
monstrous, gaudy gambling palaces that seem to exalt the very notion of excess
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as in elevated
to assign a high status or value to
popular support and media hype have exalted Super Bowl Sunday to the level of a national holiday
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as in praised
to proclaim the glory of
monstrous, gaudy gambling palaces that seem to exalt the very notion of excess
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as in glorious
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Recent Examples of exalted
Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2025
Useful and beneficial as coca may be both as food and medicine, such physical properties alone cannot account for its exalted place in the spiritual life of those living in the Andes today, not to mention all the cultures and civilizations that came before them.
—Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2025
Ana Swanson, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Related Articles The reeditions also exalt the house’s links to artists and art movements — and its devotion to craft.
—Miles Socha, Footwear News, 22 May 2025
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But did other essential workers have a more exalted vision of their communal obligations in wartime than teachers did?
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2025
Useful and beneficial as coca may be both as food and medicine, such physical properties alone cannot account for its exalted place in the spiritual life of those living in the Andes today, not to mention all the cultures and civilizations that came before them.
—Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 6 Apr. 2025
Verb
The awards are designed to make adolescents feel just exalted enough to say yes while still extracting the maximum number of dollars from each family.
—Ana Swanson, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Related Articles The reeditions also exalt the house’s links to artists and art movements — and its devotion to craft.
—Miles Socha, Footwear News, 22 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exalted
Adjective
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There's nothing quite like basking in the sun on a glorious, care-free vacation day.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
24 June 2025
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Find a theater near you and soak in that glorious AC while catching a flick or two to beat the heat.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
24 June 2025
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How quantum histories interfere One of the most famous demonstrations of the mysterious nature of quantum mechanics is called the double-slit experiment.—
Matt von Hippel,
ArsTechnica,
23 June 2025
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The American’s most famous painting Madame X (circa 1884) caused a scandal at the time for depicting socialite Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau with a dress strap hanging down off her shoulder.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
23 June 2025
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Those games were both received very well, and are among the most celebrated of indie puzzle games of all time.—
Oliver Brandt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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Home bartenders can test recipes for lychee and peach jasmine tea spritzes that Forbes contributor Emily Cappiello sourced straight from some of the world's most celebrated waterfront hotels.—
Sarah Perez,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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The second competition, your Proxima section, which is now in its fourth year, wants to provide a space for bold works by young filmmakers and renowned auteurs alike from around the globe.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
1 July 2025
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Cubitts, established in 2012, is renowned for its handcrafted frames, which emphasize design, function and sustainability.—
Renan Botelho,
Footwear News,
30 June 2025
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From September 25-28, the Windy City hosts Chicago Gourmet one of the nation’s most distinguished food festivals.—
Judy Koutsky,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Developers feed their chatbot models on a torrent of material, much of it scraped from the web — everything from distinguished literary works to random babbling — as well as collections holding millions of books, articles, scientific papers and the like, some of it copyrighted.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2025
Adjective
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Pike will play Jessica Parks, an eminent Crown Court criminal judge, a maverick at the top of her career and married with a son.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
24 June 2025
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Dalla Costa shared her ideas with other feminists, including Selma James, who lived in London and had been married to the eminent cultural historian and Pan-Africanist C. L. R. James.—
Lily Meyer,
The Atlantic,
23 May 2025
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In November, the famed French hospitality group that operates luxury trains throughout Europe, will launch a new itinerary to coincide with Italy’s truffle season.—
Forbes.com,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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That declaration is something Winans has focused on essentially all of his life as a member of gospel’s famed Winans family.—
Gail Mitchell,
Billboard,
27 June 2025
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The 3,000 career strikeout club is an exclusive club of 19 pitchers who have reached the illustrious mark.—
Zach Pressnell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 June 2025
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Cooper Flagg, his illustrious teammate at Montverde Academy, went first.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
26 June 2025
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“Exalted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exalted. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.
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