veneration

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Recent Examples of veneration This veneration of instinct has led many observers to describe Trump as a social Darwinist. Erik Baker, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025 Trump’s veneration for this Gilded Age Republican has only grown. Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 16 June 2025 But Carlyle’s unrelentingly bleak vision, his insistence on hierarchy, his veneration of strongmen, don’t look so out of place in today’s reality. Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 14 May 2025 The walls of these rooms accomplish a kind of muting of her aura, a place where veneration feels austere or regimented by bureaucracy. Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for veneration
Recent Examples of Synonyms for veneration
Noun
  • This approach to wearing shells—as a form of reverence and cultural pride—has persisted.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Her reverence for those influences runs deep.
    Shelby Stewart, Essence, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Li described herself as having a lifelong suspicion of all forms of emotional melodrama, stemming from her experience as a child in China listening to propagandist operas, in which singers made extravagant claims of adoration and allegiance.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
  • From his many, many jobs to his love and adoration of his mother, Kirk was one of a kind.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In the first slide, Schwarzenegger and Champion, 28, posed for an adorable selfie outside the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, a popular place for worship and tourist attraction in the country.
    Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Two of Grammy-winning worship collective Maverick City Music‘s members, Chandler Moore and Naomi Raine, have announced their departures from the group.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2025

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“Veneration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/veneration. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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