acclaim
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Finally, Mr. David assumed the showrunner position himself, to growing acclaim.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
But Bill Pay was clearly not aiming for highbrow acclaim in the way Barbie aimed for the Oscars.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
Now David is focused on his solo career; in 2025 he released his debut album, “Funny Little Fears,” which reached critical acclaim on various European charts, reaching gold status in France, Italy and Poland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Just a year later, the Thomas Tunnock lifeboat, named in honour of the businessman's late brother and grandfather, was launched to great acclaim.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
In the late 1990s, however, Cook County Hospital started a project that may one day earn the hospital as much acclaim as any of those earlier accomplishments.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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When Mr. Marx acclaims “Old Town Road” as an “incredible homegrown feat,” he praises what he damns elsewhere as the second sickness of our age.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
In a review headlined “Flaunting It,” New York Times book critic Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote, “George Lois may be nearly as great a genius of mass communication as he acclaims himself to be.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2022
There are countless ways to get B’s and C’s without building the “creativity, leadership and teamwork skills” that Mr. Grant rightly acclaims.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2018
Robert Ortner, chief economist for the Commerce Department, acclaims the present restructuring efforts of corporate America as "amazing."
From Time Magazine Archive
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The crowd remember yet their magic names, And echo them with thunderous acclaims Of welcome to the coming victory.
From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various
Although the Spanish singer is now one of the most acclaimed artists of her generation, in 2018 she was struggling to support herself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
James McClean has had an acclaimed club and international career, having earned 103 caps for the Republic of Ireland.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
“The Sopranos” star and his wife, Maureen Van Zandt—who also played his on-screen spouse in the iconic HBO show—snapped up the home in 2008, about a year after the finale of the critically acclaimed series.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
“Marrow Deep,” the band’s ninth studio album, reached No. 2 on Billboard’s Top Hard Rock Albums chart, and has been widely acclaimed critically.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
It was a great honor for Fort Hare to play host to a man acclaimed as a world statesman.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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Harold’s knights pivot from acclaiming him with open palms and loyal smiles to pointing fearfully at the heavens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Pundits worldwide were united in acclaiming it as one of the best England performances of all time, if not the very best.
From Reuters ● Nov. 2, 2019
But that had not prevented others from acclaiming him as a hero.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2018
He confessed as much to the left-wing American writer Anna Louise Strong in 1958, when she was about to write a book acclaiming Mao's Great Leap Forward.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2013
Such was the ecstasy of his feelings that it seemed as if the whole earth, the whole universe were acclaiming his happiness.
From The Way of the Strong by Ridgwell Cullum
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