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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

His only post-election comment was a commendatory reference to an editorial by Editor Cleveland Rodgers of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.*

From Time Magazine Archive

The punch won Happy no votes on the campus, where he is a trustee, but it did draw a commendatory letter from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some commendatory passages, in your own and other journals, my dear Mr. Transcript, seem very much to me like a theatrical encore—they half persuade me to reappear.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old




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