as in adorations
excessive admiration of or devotion to a person
the worship of professional athletes who often turn out to be all too fallible
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as in venerates
to offer honor or respect to (someone) as a divine power
the ancient Greeks worshipped many different gods
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as in loves
to feel passion, devotion, or tenderness for
the new father worships his baby daughter, and would do anything for her
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as in adores
to love or admire too much
thought that some of her fellow senior citizens worshipped the old days too much, observing that they weren't all good
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Redemptive suffering Shared sorrow is a key part of Iran’s Twelver Shiite identity, which venerates the Prophet Muhammad’s family through daughter Fatima and cousin and son-in-law, Ali.—
Mary Thurlkill,
The Conversation,
30 Mar. 2026 -
Walsh venerates Jimmy Kimmel Live!—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Jan. 2026
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While your expressive nature loves the spotlight, group work is currently the ideal way to showcase your skills without accidentally bragging.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
8 Apr. 2026
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Ronnie Doucette loves feeding his Billerica community, running What the Fork food truck and restaurant with his wife and their six kids.—
Juli McDonald,
CBS News,
8 Apr. 2026
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Agnes’ adoptive father, Commander Kyle MacKenzie (Nate Corddry), adores her, while her new stepmother, Paula (Amy Seimetz), is rather cold to her and is working toward the day Agnes is married and, thus, out of her house.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
7 Apr. 2026
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Theriot, like so many others, adores snacking on the Fried Eggplant with powdered sugar.—
Beth D'Addono,
Southern Living,
4 Apr. 2026
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But those self-adulations are often coupled with warnings that economic development success doesn’t happen by accident and can quickly slip away.—
Zachary Hansen,
AJC.com,
24 Mar. 2026
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The adulations heaped upon me at this point are getting nauseating.—
Judith Martin,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Mar. 2026
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Silyan is set in Kotevska’s native North Macedonia, a place that reveres white storks which return to the country each year to raise their young.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
14 Nov. 2025
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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
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As a cipher, the Discobolus can either represent Pollak’s humanistic ethos of a cosmopolitan society or the idolatries of Hitler’s blood-and-soil fascism.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Worships.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worships. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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