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adoration

[ad-uh-rey-shuhn] / ˌæd əˈreɪ ʃən /


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Perhaps SGA would get more adoration if he starred for a big-market club with courtside celebrities.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

City fans showed their adoration in abundance and Shaw's team-mates urged her to lap up the attention at the end of extra time after her header ensured a 3-2 victory.

From BBC • May 10, 2026

And Lady Gaga, Mother Monster though she is, has spent her short but promising acting career channeling grandma, which I mean with the utmost respect and adoration.

From Salon • May 10, 2026

Fabled Southern heritage has devolved into crackpot eccentricity, but that only deepens Louise’s adoration for the holdouts who honor it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

But sometimes Jinjoo wished her mother’s obsessive adoration of their father would not shut her children out.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh




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