paean
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The picture is both informative and worshipful, a paean to the wonders of God’s creation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Emerging bluesman Sammie plays a song he wrote as a confession to his pastor father, a paean to the music he loves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026
And during Ms. Kealani’s closing paean to Charles X, once again sensitively accompanied by the solo harp, the Gérard picture slowly assembled, with the painting itself finally projected onto the singers and Paulo Fantin’s set.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2025
One of the great theatrical speeches written in the last 25 years, this vertiginous paean to America’s pastime was no doubt a factor in O’Hare’s win.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2025
Then did they link arms, as they sat victorious, and forget the sorrows of a term in that one paean of victory.
From Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)
Vocabulary lists containing paean
Antigone
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"The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Poe's Favorite Words, collected by Charles Harrington Elster
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