as in to venerate
to offer honor or respect to (someone) as a divine power
in some cultures people revere their ancestors, even leaving food offerings for them
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Recent Examples of revere
In other words, Green Seal isn’t being pitched as a drink to revere so much as one to bring along wherever energy and music set the tone.
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Emily Price, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
The Natural is, to the core, a movie that reveres the utter Americana of historical baseball, with its lo-fi Dust Bowl aesthetics that heavily reference Arthurian legend.
—K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
However, its spot in the Stanford Place neighborhood—just a stone’s throw from Louisiana State University’s revered Tiger Stadium—was unbeatable.
—Jeanne Lyons Davis, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2025
That’s an understandable perspective, but where the morals of the interview get so twisted is how much weight Thug gives to being a millionaire and why that’s a big reason he should not just be respected but revered.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 11 Sep. 2025
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Emily Price, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
The Natural is, to the core, a movie that reveres the utter Americana of historical baseball, with its lo-fi Dust Bowl aesthetics that heavily reference Arthurian legend.
—K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
However, its spot in the Stanford Place neighborhood—just a stone’s throw from Louisiana State University’s revered Tiger Stadium—was unbeatable.
—Jeanne Lyons Davis, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2025
That’s an understandable perspective, but where the morals of the interview get so twisted is how much weight Thug gives to being a millionaire and why that’s a big reason he should not just be respected but revered.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 11 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for revere
Verb
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For all their differences in background, temperament, and approaches to art, Matisse and Picasso both venerated Cézanne, Delacroix, Manet, and van Gogh.—
Christopher C. Gorham
September 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement Trump’s insistence on honoring these Confederates implicitly venerates their politics — and provides a justification for his own rule and ruin tactics, which so often echo them.—
Time,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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Rulers on the Nile did not rely solely on their own human powers but worshipped and propitiated a natural world that was alive with gods.—
Vanessa Taylor,
Big Think,
25 Sep. 2025
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Parishioners have been forced to worship in an adjacent community center for nearly a year while the church continues its insurance settlement negotiations.—
Jose R. Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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But Pi is precociously enlightened, his innocence not a problem to be rectified but a quality to be reverenced.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2025
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But Trump also reverenced the tough job Emmer has in keeping the GOP majority together, with which Emmer is all too familiar after the chaotic last two years.—
Emily Brooks,
The Hill,
3 Feb. 2025
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“Revere.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revere. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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