admirable

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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

Figures like Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Napoleon were adventurers, and while perhaps not personally admirable, they changed history and changed it irrevocably:

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

With these offices vacant, the task fell upon district courts to name interim U.S. attorneys, which they did with admirable professionalism.

From Slate • Mar. 24, 2026

Emerald Fennell has done an admirable job of not modernizing a dark and moody romance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2026

To bring up all those differences isn’t to claim that widely distributed crops are admirable, or that they testify to the superior ingenuity of early Eurasian farmers.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond