glorious
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Key stat: For all his glorious statistics, Messi added an unwanted one on Tuesday when he became the first player to miss two penalties at a World Cup.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Simón’s films favor naturalism and “Romería” leaves ample room for Spain’s seaside beauty and glorious sunshine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Americans had been celebrating the Fourth as “that glorious and ever memorable day,” as the Pennsylvania Evening Post put it in 1777, since their first opportunity to do so.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
Next to them, Sheepstealer boasts no glorious lineage or handsome metallic scales.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
As the Soviets celebrated with Yuri Gagarin, and Fidel Castro crowed about his glorious victory at the Bay of Pigs, a Soviet official named Oleg Penkovsky boarded a flight from Moscow to London.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
Vocabulary lists containing glorious
"Beowulf," Vocabulary from the epic poem
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"A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury
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Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I A Woman?" (1863)
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