genuflect

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Shows like “Top Chef” teach us to genuflect at the altars of celebrity culinarians, viewing their restaurants and signature dishes as luxury experiences as opposed to showing regular folks how to think innovatively about dinner.

From Salon • Jan. 30, 2026

“Instead, the faithful are requested to genuflect or make a profound bow as they venerate the cross,” said Archbishop Romulo Valles, who heads the bishops’ conference.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 26, 2020

The restaurant is lined with press clippings, and toward the back, you can genuflect before a shrine to past candidates and ex-presidents.

From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2020

Candidates now publicly genuflect before him, as Beto O’Rourke did when the former Texas congressman took the stage soon after the conference got underway Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2019

I remained silent and remembered to genuflect exactly on cue.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez