admirable
Example Sentences
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Many on the team are doing admirable work.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
Comprehensive peace in the region is an admirable goal, one that the U.S. should strive toward.
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
Mr. Mikhail is a professor of history at Yale and the author of admirable books on the Ottomans.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
Jack Thorne, who co-wrote last year’s prize-winning “Adolescence,” returns with another story of fractured childhood with an admirable, engrossing new adaptation of William Golding’s much-taught novel of boy castaways, “The Lord of the Flies.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026
“Why else would the children of such an important man decide that the lifestyle he has set out for them is not an admirable one?”
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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