revere
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As it happens, Hegseth wasn’t alone in offending the entire Western world, which he purports to revere.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026
The site is considered holy to Christians – who revere it as the site of Jesus's last Supper – and to Jews who see it as the tomb of the biblical King David.
From BBC ● May 1, 2026
Now Carlson is making his way back into the conversation by opposing the man he once claimed to revere.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
I feel about Scotland the way many Europeans feel about America: I love its people, revere its history, relish its architecture and topography and regard its present-day politics with sadness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
He promised to revere her as if she had been First Wife, his only wife.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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He belongs to a Hindu sect that reveres nature and follows strict vegetarianism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
A Shiite cleric, he lives frugally and was brought up in a religious tradition that reveres martyrdom.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
As somebody who has come up through the department, who reveres it, what do the two sides of that coin look like?
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025
The film reveres these women not for their perfection or their myth, but for their work.
From Salon ● May 18, 2025
Elinor, as I have told you often, reveres her father, and has a chivalric sense of filial obligations.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
Police launched an investigation in June and arrested eight people responsible for handling donations at the revered Hindu shrine in the northern city of Ayodhya.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
Despite being revered as World Cup top scorer in 1958, Fontaine never got a Golden Boot - the award was not introduced until 1982.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
In remixing one of cinema’s most revered classics with singular comedic flair, Wain has made a contender for his best film that succeeds by tributing his own loony industry.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
How John Trumbull’s revered depiction of July 4, 1776, mixes fiction and fact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
He was revered by his troops and had demonstrated by that point in the war an unmatched tactical genius.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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The film purports to show how socioeconomic inequality is a result of “the cultural pendulum swinging too far towards revering things we consider ‘masculine,’ like individualism, power, and money,” according to the nonprofit’s website.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
"This tells me about the whole community, this tells me about how they were thinking, how they were behaving, how they were revering the heavens."
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Armstrong, who grew up revering Schulz, has a deep connection to Franklin.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
But know this: Parenting culture is moving toward greater respect for all while still caring for and revering our elders.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2023
But thou art frustrated in thy marriage with this unhappy virgin, whom I betrothed to thee, revering thy friendship.
From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides
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