glorifying 1 of 2

present participle of glorify
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glorifying

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adjective

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Recent Examples of glorifying
Adjective
Stop glorifying hours logged or calendars packed. Daisy Auger-Domínguez, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 Their clashes are purposefully hectic and confused, the better for questioning rather than glorifying acts of violence. Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025 Rather than glorifying cosmetic surgery, this series focuses on the emotional struggles that lie in the space between what can be changed and what cannot. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for glorifying
Verb
  • Further elevating her practice, Jacobs belongs to a small club of artist/aviators including Doug Wheeler and James Turrell, whose experiences of flying small aircraft have opened an inimitable perspective on atmosphere and the aesthetics of the sublime.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The conceit is inherently crowdpleasing — a man stumbling into strangers’ lives and finding unexpected connection — but Hikari steers it with earnestness, elevating it beyond sentimental comedy.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In fact, constantly praising your Gen Z employees can become impractical and downright exhausting.
    Colleen Batchelder, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The museum was beloved by locals, who left online reviews praising the staff's work and their warm welcome.
    Yegor Mostovshikov, The Dial, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • However, the president’s criticism of mail-in ballots could risk disrupting the inroads Republicans made with voters last cycle, with the party spending millions promoting mail-in ballots ahead of the 2024 election.
    Hailey Bullis, The Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2025
  • It was created with the intention of promoting AI fluency and a future-ready, AI-confident workforce.
    Malana VanTyler, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Bungie took the rare step of doing an emergency buff live patch last night after announcing it in the TWAB to try to fix/improve The Portal and loot systems.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • This is not Chiu, who enthusiastically takes part in the process, sometimes even announcing purchases for the Crocker on social media.
    Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Mexican flags and candy adorned the Copley Plaza in front of The Old Globe on Saturday as a crowd joined dignitaries in celebrating the 215th Mexican Independence Day.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2025
  • In anycase, the big Grand Finale is coming to theaters soon and Peacock is celebrating the event with a special that includes interviews with the cast and should be fun for fans.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Summer is usually the time of long days and longer vacations, but summer 2025 was a season where the business world’s inviolable godhead, the chief executive officer, looked less and less like a position worth exalting.
    Ian Chaffee, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Open Doors, which monitors Christian persecution around the world, claimed some 70 were, Monday night, killed while worshiping at a funeral service, with the rest slain in the villages of Potodu and Ntoyo in the DRC’s North Kivu region.
    Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Our right-wing Christians are fighting to turn away the most desperate foreign refugees, all while worshiping Jesus, who was once a foreign refugee.
    John Fugelsang September 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • China has been advertising plans to land Taikonauts — or Chinese astronauts — on the lunar surface for the first time by 2030, competing with NASA’s plan to return its own astronauts to the moon’s surface as soon as mid-2027.
    Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Freyne does a lot with a modest budget, finding smart ways to show us fantastical things — memories playing out as if dioramas at the Natural History Museum, a vast expo hall filled with stalls advertising various paradises — on an economical scale.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Glorifying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glorifying. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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