anoint
Example Sentences
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“Founders and investors have the ability to weaponize a startup’s balance sheet and make these huge investments at huge valuations to try to anoint a winner and suck all the air out of the room.”
Many in my and my parents’ generations are wary of anointed leaders.
The international lists anointed Greece and Boquete, Panama, a small community with a large expat population.
From MarketWatch
For years, football fans have loved her sass and the excitement she exudes as she shouts out her picks, grabbing the anointed team’s helmet and sometimes tossing the opponent’s.
From Los Angeles Times
He chose to favor biology over meritocracy and anointed Commodus as his heir when the boy was only 5 years old.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
