fawning
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It is an unusually nuanced take on a subject that too often generates reflexive fulminating or fawning, and a truly auspicious start to the New Museum’s new chapter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
Is it a parable about the dangers posed by artificial intelligence and the fawning tendencies of large language models?
From Salon • Nov. 26, 2025
The term carries an intensely pejorative connotation in the group and speaks to the imbalance of power between the singer and his fawning entourage.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025
The BBC has previously investigated how Jhaj was able to hire hundreds of children to act as his fawning fans at a fake film premiere in London's Leicester Square in 2023.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2025
She smiled, and her manner instead of being still and unbending as it usually was became startlingly familiar, fawning even.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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