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It’s been a beacon of democracy since its founding, and countries all over the world have held it in such high esteem.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

Most countries hold us in remarkably lower esteem today than they did a year ago.

From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2026

Robert Coover’s “The Universal Baseball Association Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.” has grown in esteem since the novel was first published in 1968.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Not too long ago, “Bridgerton” was held in the highest esteem in the meeting place between TV fantasy and drab reality.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2026

Graduate Dean George Birkhoff assured Ernest of Harvard’s high esteem for Oppenheimer “as a creative theorist” and confided that the university was willing to appoint him as an associate professor at $6,000.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Freaks are scroungers, thrifters, salvagers; they’re unmatched in their ability to repurpose the discarded, to find value in things — and in people — that it sometimes seems nobody else wants or esteems.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2024

“I know that he esteems her a lot, like all the Jesuits of Argentina and Uruguay, because they consider her their spiritual mother,” Correale told The Associated Press in the runup to the ceremony.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 11, 2024

The great irony, or the sublime absurdity, is that like a priest who practices his faith after the death of God, Daoud esteems Camus even as he exposes the Nobel Prize-winning writer’s blind spots.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2015

PEN esteems not only exquisite literature, but also the right of all people to express themselves.

From Slate ● May 6, 2015

Has he, even he! given his soul,—his noble soul!—to one who esteems and admires him, yet who will not be his?

From The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

This title is only awarded by the Congolese president to the most esteemed public figures.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

Ronald Lauder’s esteemed collection of German and Austrian art will be owned and operated by the Met starting in 2028.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Immigrants lived near the mission, and esteemed Spanish Mexican families lived in large mansions around the churches that dot Old Town in the mid-19th century — many came post-Spanish-Mexican wars.

From Salon ● May 9, 2026

At 99, Saar is among L.A.’s most esteemed and accomplished living artists.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2026

The Barnetts belonged to a small elite group referred to by the esteemed black sociologist St. Clair Drake as “the Refined.”

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

What nudged Americans from esteeming fastidious high-culture figures like Muck to idolizing personally crude pop-culture stars like Ruth?

From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2020

The Russians, esteeming ceremony as a proud proletarian power should, outdid themselves in welcome.

From Time Magazine Archive

From many he tooke without iustice, to giue to others without desert: esteeming it no vnequall dealing, that the money of the one, should bee aduentured and expended with the blood of the other.

From The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by John Hayward

So, too, he praised without esteeming, and blackened without hating.

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul

May happiness wing to thy bosom, unsought, And Nigel, esteeming his bliss as he ought, Prove worthy thy worship,—confound him!

From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Hannah Jane Locker-Lampson