as in tribute
a formal expression of praise
wrote a panegyric on the centennial of the Nobel laureate's birth
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Recent Examples of panegyric
The whole film is a panegyric: big speeches and weighty moments with very little sense of play.
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Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
Buckley’s magazine, National Review, the flagship of the movement, published regular panegyrics to anti-communist generalissimos, heaping adoration on the likes of the Dominican Republic’s Rafael Trujillo, Portugal’s Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, and Spain’s Francisco Franco.
—Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2024
For example, Kenneth Khachigian, chief speechwriter for former President Ronald Reagan, wrote a panegyric about her for The Wall Street Journal, which went so far as to compare her to the Gipper.
—Robert Robb, CNN, 31 Oct. 2022
At Night Market, a young Filipina chef named Strawberry conjured a mouthwatering panegyric to Middle East cuisine.
—Christopher P. Baker, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2022
Leave it to Grant Park Music Festival artistic director Carlos Kalmar to make sense of a head-scratcher of a season closer: A sprawling, somewhat obscure military panegyric by Handel.
—Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 21 Aug. 2021
Yet, once the protagonist Vellitt Boe leaves her capricious, cruel fantasy realm behind, there follows a panegyric to this world.
—Siddhartha Deb, The New Republic, 19 Mar. 2021
As this panegyric suggests, Charles’s political career in the United States was dead on arrival.
—David Klion, The New Republic, 24 Sep. 2019
And all of the above is unbeknownst to Grace, who, in her speech at the wedding feast, delivers a panegyric to her parents for their total fabulosity, and whose life is about to be upended.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2019
Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
Buckley’s magazine, National Review, the flagship of the movement, published regular panegyrics to anti-communist generalissimos, heaping adoration on the likes of the Dominican Republic’s Rafael Trujillo, Portugal’s Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, and Spain’s Francisco Franco.
—Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2024
For example, Kenneth Khachigian, chief speechwriter for former President Ronald Reagan, wrote a panegyric about her for The Wall Street Journal, which went so far as to compare her to the Gipper.
—Robert Robb, CNN, 31 Oct. 2022
At Night Market, a young Filipina chef named Strawberry conjured a mouthwatering panegyric to Middle East cuisine.
—Christopher P. Baker, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2022
Leave it to Grant Park Music Festival artistic director Carlos Kalmar to make sense of a head-scratcher of a season closer: A sprawling, somewhat obscure military panegyric by Handel.
—Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 21 Aug. 2021
Yet, once the protagonist Vellitt Boe leaves her capricious, cruel fantasy realm behind, there follows a panegyric to this world.
—Siddhartha Deb, The New Republic, 19 Mar. 2021
As this panegyric suggests, Charles’s political career in the United States was dead on arrival.
—David Klion, The New Republic, 24 Sep. 2019
And all of the above is unbeknownst to Grace, who, in her speech at the wedding feast, delivers a panegyric to her parents for their total fabulosity, and whose life is about to be upended.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for panegyric
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This hidden cocktail bar pays tribute to Asheville's bold 1907 anti-Prohibitionists who wore red ribbons in defiance.—
Nicole Letts,
Southern Living,
29 June 2025
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In May, Brown paid tribute to husband Jake Bongiovi on his 23rd birthday with a post on social media.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
29 June 2025
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In keeping with tradition, the Mass will include a homily and communion and end with a final commendation and farewell.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
26 Apr. 2025
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Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, Dean of the College of Cardinals, presided over the funeral liturgy and delivered the final commendation and valediction.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
26 Apr. 2025
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The academics also found that LGBTQ-friendly firms demonstrated an almost 25 percent increase in the number of patent citations, which is broadly considered an indication of how other companies value the innovativeness of a particular patent.—
Josie Cox,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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Vinson said the village is involved with ongoing litigation with the apartment owner over 170 previously issued citations.—
Olivia Stevens,
Chicago Tribune,
26 June 2025
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