worship
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This kind of warrior worship is also incredibly common.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026
"We worship at the throne of music and football, these are all the things we love in America married together," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
It neatly sums up the endgame in which we find ourselves — and his vanquishing of the preacher Eli speaks to what we worship in the United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
They only knew it offered what the Old World increasingly didn’t: freedom to think, to work and collaborate, to worship and to build.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
They were mere yards from the front of the worship hall, the statues of the Six rising to meet them.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Within a legal profession that venerates judges and worships the Supreme Court, this is borderline heresy.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
What does it mean to lack ambition in a country that worships wealth?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
Filipino woman worships green statue for 4 years, finds out it is animated character Shrek.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 12, 2026
Madame Pernelle, too, worships at the shrine of Tartuffe, but has nary a good word, and many a bad one, for anyone else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
“Chiche worships you, Jefe. He always says even back then he could tell you were a natural leader.”
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
The image called to mind the golden calf of Abrahamic religious texts, worshipped by the Israelites to Moses’—and God’s—dismay.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
A showreel of footballing memories - teams you loved, heroes you worshipped, the iconic shirts they wore.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
"If someone chants the name of Mother Bonbibi, she will save his life from tigers, snakes, and crocodiles," said villager Ashutosh Mandal, 63, referring to a deity whose idol is worshipped at temples.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
Despite the abundance of material, it remains difficult to determine exactly which deities were worshipped.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 5, 2026
Some of them worshipped nature spirits, gods of particular localities, their own ancestors, and female shamans who spoke with departed spirits and delivered prayers in song.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
But she was worshiped for being the Iron Lady.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
The same way that McIlroy worshiped Woods before playing alongside him, a new generation of players reached the highest level of the game by wanting to be McIlroy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
In it, a government scientist discovers that a scaly creature worshiped by island villagers as a sea god has grown to a monstrosity that dwarfs tall buildings.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2026
He wanted to be a filmmaker like his idol, Tim Burton, or maybe a high school drama teacher like those he worshiped along the way.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025
Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
“That was perfect. And no one was going to come and say, ‘Why are you worshiping God?’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2026
Society is depicted as "worshiping only power and money, despising art, sensitivity, tenderness, where people ...don't talk anymore."
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
Not by banning it or worshiping it, but by designing it to strengthen the irreplaceable human skills that business demands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
And a growing number of middle-class African Americans are worshiping in more diverse congregations.
From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2024
“Soon it will be time for me to sing. After that, I’ll either be surrounded by worshiping music lovers or be shunned by all.”
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
If that were an innovative idea, we’d have been worshipping at the heels of last year’s equally topical yet no less trite sci-fi horror “Companion.”
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Kingsley Femi Fanwo, Kogi State's information commissioner, blamed Sunday's church raid on bandits, and urged isolated places of worship to "reconsider worshipping in crime prone areas for now until the situation gets better".
From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025
Currently, they face the choice of attending state-sanctioned churches approved by Beijing or worshipping in underground congregations that have sworn allegiance to the Vatican.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2025
He is worshipping her through this act of cooking for her.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2024
I’m a little conflicted, since I’m against the idea of everybody worshipping the so-called cool crowd.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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