dignify
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You are making sure you dignify those relationships, in your own way.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
Ms. Nuzzi will not dignify efforts to impugn her character with any future response,” Nuzzi’s lawyer Ari Wilkenfeld said in a statement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
New York Rep. Mike Lawler said Greene’s belief “doesn’t dignify a response,” while Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon observed that “I think enough has already been said. I ignore her.”
From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2024
When the question was asked, Brendon McCullum did not dignify it with a response.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2024
The argument—if we can dignify it by such a word—went something like this: “I can’t see a thing on Venus.”
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Your marches are full of empty promises and until you take action that dignifies and respects Black women, I have no choice but to ignore you.
From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2020
Heat, however, neither disguises nor dignifies their narcissism of small differences.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2019
Like a long line of fictional characters before him, Peter dignifies his misdeeds by casting them as potential literary scenarios.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2018
I am so grateful that New York state dignifies immigrants to offer them Medicaid.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 30, 2017
"It is a mistake," she said, "to treat such attempts as high treason, for it dignifies the crime, and makes the criminals feel that they are bold and daring men."
From In the Days of Queen Victoria by Eva March Tappan
Librarian Regina Andrews, known for her salons, exudes the dignified air of a beloved host, vividly describing the communal groundswell every young thinker and creative then could sense happening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
We do hope that he will finally say something to America, Ukraine, and the entire world that will lead to a real and dignified peace.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
"What we want is that once that information is shared, the knowledge about that then enables them to have a dignified process," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
His spokeswoman said on his trip "the agenda will include discussions on the voluntary, dignified and safe repatriation of Myanmar nationals currently in Malaysia".
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
My dignified weeping gives way to full- on ugliness, my mouth open and my face contorted and sounds like a dying animal coming from my throat.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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In Ostlund’s biting comedy, de Leon embraced the task of dignifying a character who essentially represents the millions of Filipinos working abroad to support their families back home.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2022
Faith is really important and dignifying the faith and respecting it is really important to us.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2021
Asked for comment on Sunday evening regarding the altercation, John LaBombard, a spokesman for Sinema, told The Washington Post: “We are not dignifying this behavior with a response.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2021
"I am not dignifying de Becker's passive aggressive allegations or his crazy conspiracy theories," he said in a statement to Page Six.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2019
The Prince of Wales was severely censured by some of the English journals for dignifying by his presence the nautch-dancing of India.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various
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