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as in praised
to declare enthusiastic approval of
the museum director hailed the artist's new installation as a groundbreaking work of genius
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as in summoned
to demand or request the presence or service of
let's hail a taxi hailed the waiter for the check
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Recent Examples of hailed
Xi last visited in 2019, while Putin made a trip in 2024, when Moscow and Pyongyang hailed their tightening military ties by inking a mutual defense treaty.
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Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 8 June 2026
That would be Babe the Blue Ox, modeled after the sidekick to the mythical Paul Bunyan, who, legend has it, hailed from Bangor.
—Steve Buckley, New York Times, 5 June 2026
The appellate ruling, hailed by some first responders and decried by racial justice advocates, intensifies Colorado’s debate over what accountability looks like when a Black person dies after a police encounter.
—Mead Gruver, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
Farmers are being hailed as heroes for rejecting millions of dollars to turn their land into data centers, while claims of the facilities bringing jobs to the area are being met with incredulity and frustration.
—Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 4 June 2026
Nepal's mountaineering community has hailed Dawa's survival as miraculous.
—ABC News, 4 June 2026
The gains followed another record for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq on Wall Street, where chipmaker Marvell Technology soared more than 32% after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hailed it as the next trillion-dollar firm.
—Khaled Wassef, CBS News, 3 June 2026
The leopard print, off-the-shoulder look hailed from the label’s pre-fall 2010 collection.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 2 June 2026
Fatally beaten were Villegas, 54, a native of Mexico City and a loving father and grandfather, and Moran, 39, who hailed from the Pacific Coast state of Guerrero in Mexico and was Santos’s youngest victim.
—Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 28 May 2026
Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 8 June 2026
That would be Babe the Blue Ox, modeled after the sidekick to the mythical Paul Bunyan, who, legend has it, hailed from Bangor.
—Steve Buckley, New York Times, 5 June 2026
The appellate ruling, hailed by some first responders and decried by racial justice advocates, intensifies Colorado’s debate over what accountability looks like when a Black person dies after a police encounter.
—Mead Gruver, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
Farmers are being hailed as heroes for rejecting millions of dollars to turn their land into data centers, while claims of the facilities bringing jobs to the area are being met with incredulity and frustration.
—Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 4 June 2026
Nepal's mountaineering community has hailed Dawa's survival as miraculous.
—ABC News, 4 June 2026
The gains followed another record for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq on Wall Street, where chipmaker Marvell Technology soared more than 32% after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hailed it as the next trillion-dollar firm.
—Khaled Wassef, CBS News, 3 June 2026
The leopard print, off-the-shoulder look hailed from the label’s pre-fall 2010 collection.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 2 June 2026
Fatally beaten were Villegas, 54, a native of Mexico City and a loving father and grandfather, and Moran, 39, who hailed from the Pacific Coast state of Guerrero in Mexico and was Santos’s youngest victim.
—Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 28 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hailed
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Universal City Police Chief Johnny Siemens praised the swift response by officers and partner agencies.—
Sophia Compton,
FOXNews.com,
2 June 2026
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Bernardino Couñago, the firm’s co-founder and CEO, praised the potential of the solar platform.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
1 June 2026
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Five others escaped the cave’s narrow tunnels after rescue efforts by international experts summoned to the perilous cave in central Laos.—
Kocha Olarn,
CNN Money,
1 June 2026
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Hernandez summoned national media hurricanes to two high school track seasons and a volleyball season in the span of one year.—
Jackson Thompson OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
1 June 2026
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In any case, the Academy’s openness toward international cinema should be applauded.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
4 June 2026
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The audience applauded in agreement.—
Jada Yuan,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2026
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The rapidly ballooning market of the 1980s accommodated both kinds of art—art that might have been called critical, as well as art that might have been termed complicit, Pictures artists and neo-expressionists alike.—
Katy Siegel,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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Food and drink Four Seasons has two properties in Istanbul—this, and its sister set on the stretch of the shore lined with former palace-cum-hotels that could be called the Posh-phorus.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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Early Sunday morning, firefighters stood and saluted Kilduff's body during a dignified transfer as he was moved from the hospital to the medical examiner's office.—
Matt Schooley,
CBS News,
24 May 2026
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La Familia was particularly upset that Messi and the majority of his teammates had not saluted them after games, as is customary in soccer culture.—
Michelle Kaufman
May 22,
Miami Herald,
22 May 2026
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Adaptation was also critically acclaimed, and earned four Academy Award nominations.—
Virginia Chamlee,
PEOPLE,
27 May 2026
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BAMtheatre is a year-round, acclaimed, prize-winning youth theater conservatory, with its own building in Westmont, and has almost 3,000 students each year.—
Myrna Petlicki,
Chicago Tribune,
26 May 2026
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“Hailed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hailed. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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