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admire

[ad-mahyuhr] / ædˈmaɪər /


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There was still plenty to admire about Chelsea's performance.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

Who’s a performer you admire who’s still out there doing it late in life?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

“And I actually admire those types of people who can just keep pushing forward and shut the noise out and just keep going and striving towards a purpose while operating from a place of purpose.”

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Once while scrolling, she stopped to admire pictures of a garden on her feed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

The mothers nursing their tiny infants, the females who gathered around to admire, the youngsters leaping over one another all created the bustle of a peaceful village.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Brydon also spoke about another writing duo he admires - his fellow Gavin and Stacey cast mates Ruth Jones and James Corden.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

The obvious gem of the collection is the attention-getting title story, about the Canadian Nobel laureate Alice Munro, who died in 2024 — and whose complex, layered short fiction Aviv admires.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Macron invited him to a formal dinner to be held at the one place Trump admires most in the world, other than Mar-a-Lago and Trump Tower: the Palace of Versailles.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

He admires and respects his dad, he says, but sometimes hearing the same advice from other entrepreneurs hits differently.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

She finishes the last braid and pats Ma’s head as she admires her handiwork.

From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott

“Discover breathtaking prewar grandeur in this spacious one-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bathroom co-op featuring exceptional architectural detail and a wood-burning fireplace in one of Greenwich Village’s most admired full-service buildings,” the listing states.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Even people who don’t watch football have probably admired Saquon Barkley.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Was there ever a writer whose work you admired but couldn’t find your way into?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

"Au Vodka is a brand we've long admired," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

He visited the birch, sat in his favorite roost, and admired the birch’s buds as one admires a friend’s babies.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig

He also has admiring words for Robert F. Kennedy and his mix of conservative and liberal positions deployed in his 1968 campaign.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

The very thing that made their creative work possible – a large, mostly admiring audience – was also its biggest threat.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

The documentary features admiring poets as well as Stephen Colbert, a huge Oliver fan, and the irreverent and colorful John Waters, a longtime friend.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

He said it is a "really great honor to have my name listed after all those great mathematicians I've always been admiring".

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Leading TimeStar, Otto circled the Lev-Port as if admiring the exterior, in case Sheed could see them from inside.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles




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