adore
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"I absolutely adore my children," Alex says, particularly now they are old enough to play football with.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
But if you really adore the art form, Letterboxd’s popularity is a rare net positive in an era when tech is largely being used to pit humanity against art and each other.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
“As a full-time solo RV woman I absolutely adore this!” one person wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
Then enters Mike Doonesbury, scraggly-haired and pointy-nosed, claiming improbably that “women adore me.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
“I adore you, Ari, you know I do.”
From "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Morton raves, and off she goes, telling me how much she adores Jim Henson and how “The Dark Crystal” is one of her all-time favorite films.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
The 54-year-old fisherman from a small village in Polewali Mandar, West Sulawesi, has been a superfan of the Argentine football team since the 1980s and adores superstar Lionel Messi.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
If the best way to hit it big is to make a podcast that someone like Altman adores, then the rest of us are probably in trouble.
From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2026
Mr. Jacobs also adores the look of the taxi dancers—“broken dolls,” he calls them—in Bob Fosse’s movie “Sweet Charity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
‘I just know. The Empire State Building. The Chrysler. Salim adores big buildings. He wants to be an architect one day. Isn’t that right, love?’
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
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“She was adored by her sisters and she was deeply loved by her parents. In fact, she was the light of our lives,” the family added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
It is different at Tottenham, with the Argentine still adored for his five-year spell in charge from 2014.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
He offers a masculinity with actual range, one that can be soft and adored and unafraid to be looked at, one that treats femininity as a color to wear rather than a threat to survive.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
“And that is important because the people who loved and adored Hayden deserve the truth.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
Maeve adored early mornings, when the world was bathed in mist and the sun was still a promise.
From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate
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"I love color. I love painting. I love shapes. I love composition. I love the people all around me. I'm adoring it all. My legacy is in the hands of other people."
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Little is known about Graham—or, apparently, by Graham—and it’s not as if the state’s right wing was ever adoring of her late brother.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026
On “Me Against the World,” that came in the form of “Dear Mama,” an adoring tribute to his mother, the activist and former Black Panther Afeni Shakur.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Like Grande to her adoring fans, Maddie is Deena’s idol, and Deena measures Maddie’s success by her work benchmarks and public visibility.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
My heart was breaking in my chest at the thought of tiny, eight-year-old Sahil realizing people were so much more adoring of his brother.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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