fawning
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Meanwhile, White House pool reporters reacted on Wednesday with nonsensical questions, equal parts banal and fawning.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
We young women standing in front of her, fawning and asking for a photo, were the future of her work.
From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2026
He attaches clippings of or links to fawning newspaper profiles and columns, but not to stories about what was happening in the civilian population of his country as it went through a crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
But The Hollywood Reporter describes the film as "pretty polished and as featherweight as a fawning magazine puff piece".
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
Stewards in black and white walked around with trays and fawning smiles, their heads held inanely high.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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