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But Bill Pay was clearly not aiming for highbrow acclaim in the way Barbie aimed for the Oscars.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 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

It is that rare triumph in which popular acclaim and artistic worth completely agree.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Let’s set the stage for you in a way that won’t spoil this constantly surprising film when it arrives in theaters in December and starts piling up acclaim and awards for all concerned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Speaking out more boldly than he had during the entire strike, he made a statement that would bring him national attention and acclaim.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

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

Each midwinter, with medals, scrolls, plaques, sonorous words and sometimes money, Science acclaims industrial and academic workers for outstanding achievement.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the verdict of the centuries, which is the verdict of the eternities to come, acclaims that "failure" as the greatest triumph of the ages, the victory of victories.

From The Great Apostasy Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History by James Edward Talmage

She also won an Emmy in 1990 for her role as a rich widow in the acclaimed TV miniseries People Like Us.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Netflix’s Cathy-centered take on “East of Eden” comes before us at a very different time than the one in which Zoe Kazan’s grandfather Elia introduced his acclaimed 1955 film.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

The prolific and acclaimed writer and activist used his liberal beliefs and his agrarian roots in Kentucky to craft novels, poems and essays connecting the natural world to humankind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Among her tasks: wiring acclaimed authors for sound before they go on stage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Nearly a decade later, in December 1939, the acclaimed newspaper reporter Ernie Pyle stopped at La Tuna prison, near El Paso, Texas.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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