admirable

Example Sentences

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"You are an admirable person in a society where young people need role models like you. Thank you for everything you have given us, everything you continue to give, and everything you still will."

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

Run by Wellington Management—where Bogle worked before Vanguard—the fund boasts more than $110 billion in assets and an admirable record.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Which is certainly an admirable approach, albeit a rather idealistic strategy in a state of nearly 23 million voters, spread over roughly 800 miles from north to south.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2026

As she relates in this new and admirable work of social history, all sorts of elements—some well-intentioned, some cynically opportunistic—contributed to produce a wholesale reworking of the way America’s children approach their food.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

He was upbeat, relentlessly so, in a way that only an American of his kind could be, and there was an infantile quality to this that she found admirable and repulsive.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie