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commendatory

[kuh-men-duh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] / kəˈmɛn dəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /


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A quick scroll through his timeline will mostly yield commendatory musings about various Amazon ventures or the executive’s space-exploration outfit, Blue Origin.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 11, 2017

A quick scroll through his timeline will mostly yield commendatory musings about various Amazon ventures or the executive’s space exploration outfit, Blue Origin.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2017

Bishop Brewster started a commendatory prayer but broke down; Bishop Wise finished it.

From Time Magazine Archive

If the inference is commendatory, it is accepted graciously; if it is the needle, the plumbing industry, proud of its history, is "vein" enough to absorb the injection.

From Time Magazine Archive

Above all, in a literal and also commendatory sense of the word, was the solarium.

From Roman Women by Brittain, Alfred




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