as in favorable
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expressing or containing praise
a laudatory biography The play received mostly laudatory reviews.
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Recent Examples of laudatory
Carr was especially laudatory of Louisiana, where a campaign to improve reading proficiency resulted in both higher- and lower-performing students exceeding 2019 scores.
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CBS News, 29 Jan. 2025
The December murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the often laudatory response to it online has left the industry grappling with how so much anger could be directed towards a sector that purports to keep people healthy.
—Rita Numerof, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
With the leadership mantle passing from the former president to his understudy, Mondale offered a laudatory summation of the Carter administration.
—Mark Barabak, The Mercury News, 1 Jan. 2025
But the path down memory lane is twisted, and while trying to debunk the many laudatory myths that have grown up around him, Fife’s deteriorating mind just ends up creating more, a contradiction that Schrader conveys with a whole armory of experimental visual flourishes.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 4 Dec. 2024
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CBS News, 29 Jan. 2025
The December murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the often laudatory response to it online has left the industry grappling with how so much anger could be directed towards a sector that purports to keep people healthy.
—Rita Numerof, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
With the leadership mantle passing from the former president to his understudy, Mondale offered a laudatory summation of the Carter administration.
—Mark Barabak, The Mercury News, 1 Jan. 2025
But the path down memory lane is twisted, and while trying to debunk the many laudatory myths that have grown up around him, Fife’s deteriorating mind just ends up creating more, a contradiction that Schrader conveys with a whole armory of experimental visual flourishes.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 4 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for laudatory
Adjective
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Weekly, relative strength and seasonality are both favorable.—
Bill Sarubbi,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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Conditions are favorable for the development of weak, brief funnel clouds.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
27 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The numbers paint a generally positive outlook that, according to these forecasters, should allow the nation to narrowly dodge a slump.—
Paul Davidson,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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His spirit is one of life and moving forward and trying to find a way to survive and to thrive and to grow and to be in this positive, progressive state.—
Abigail Lee,
Variety,
28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Columbus was a stand-in for the nation’s hagiographic origin story, much like the Mayflower or its Western pioneers.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
28 Apr. 2025
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Likewise, Hollywood stars were adored in hagiographic terms.—
Michael Ashley,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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“Laudatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laudatory. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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