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exalt

[ig-zawlt] / ɪgˈzɔlt /


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“God gave me a mother who worked her entire life for me,” said Hernández, who eased on his elastic goofball schtick to exalt immigrant mothers.

From Los Angeles Times May 13, 2026

We certainly don't fault them for their bad decision-making skills — we exalt them.

From Salon Apr. 23, 2024

Francis “certainly didn’t want to exalt imperialistic logic or government personalities, who were cited to indicate certain historic periods of reference,” Bruni said in a statement.

From Washington Times Aug. 29, 2023

But to compare Shree to Western writers is to miss the point of “Tomb of Sand”: to exalt Hindustan beyond the bloodstained legacy of its former colonial powers.

From Washington Post Feb. 3, 2023

Of course they would exalt the priests and rulers who promised to maintain this miracle.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

He echoes throughout her work, in her sense of ecstasy, in how she exalts the world around her, down to the humble leaf of grass.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

The glittering uniform exalts Caballero, but a hand is just a hand — unless, of course, it’s the artist’s own hand, proudly displayed via all that eye-boggling brushwork.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 28, 2023

Southern Company exalts Plant Vogtle as a key clean energy asset.

From Washington Times Aug. 1, 2023

But that's the kind of thing that our culture exalts these days.

From Salon Jul. 19, 2023

Love is the concrete element which exalts the abstraction of Intelligence to incarnate Idea; therefore is love the idealizing principle from which intelligence draws belief in its own aims.

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams

Before Nazi Germany revoked her civic belonging, universities offered Arendt a more exalted citizenship.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

In that, he is in exalted company - Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher are the others.

From BBC May 3, 2026

His novel “Caleb Williams” introduces an embattled young hero, born poor and largely self-educated, who perceives justice in exalted terms.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 9, 2026

The former slave girl became a noblewoman in New Spain, but she didn’t have much time to enjoy her exalted status.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 25, 2026

And now, here was Matilda sitting in the classroom with a curiously exalted look on her face and asking if she could have a private talk.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

His “more real” is frustrating, pleasurable, terrifying, exalting, and as familiar as our own peculiar families.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 21, 2026

“I can’t describe how beautiful, calm, sacred, exciting, and exalting it was. It was just a dream,” she told the outlet.

From MarketWatch Dec. 29, 2025

John Nieporte, the head pro at Trump’s West Palm Beach, Fla., golf club, raved about Trump as a “great boss and helluva golfer,” exalting his game from tee shot to the putting green.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 19, 2024

TV viewers can watch the massive Globo network’s seven-year campaign exalting the sector.

From Seattle Times Jun. 3, 2024

The music stopped and the guests gathered in the main hall where a small, innocent priest, adorned with the vestments of high mass, read the complicated sermon he had written exalting confused and impracticable virtues.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende




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