glory
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A breakout 2023-24 season with Barcelona ended with him being included in Spain's Euro 2024 squad, and like Mbappe in 2018, he shone in his first major tournament and inspired his team to glory.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
It’s flickers of glory lined by decades of pain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Palaeoanthropology must regain its glory as a science that’s not only about bones, but that’s an ethological, cultural, and social study of bygone human societies.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
Shares are trading at around $22, well off the highs reached during the height of GameStop’s meme-stock glory in 2021.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
It’s just that those things don’t seem to have the weight, the measureless beauty of countless sunsets and dawns, the simple grace and clear glory of nature.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
The author takes aim at the nation-state system, which he contrasts with the glories of past empires, mainly Asian, and the promise of what he calls “humanity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
A defiant Djokovic said he never doubted that he could relive past glories.
From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026
He remains a popular figure, but badly needs something more than a cool number plate to remind him of past glories.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025
As Ganz archly observed, “the word for the politics that makes a pastiche of past glories to create a new type of regime is ‘fascism.'”
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2025
Mist hung just above the trees, burning off in patches where bright sun dulled the intensity of red hibiscus blossoms, yellow morning glories, the purple centers of passion fruit flowers.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
And still, people kept going back to try their luck, men who gloried in nicknames such as Twitchlip Kelly and Two-Gun Don Rosenkrantz.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2025
More accurately, she added, he was “a quintessential” man of the Renaissance, which gloried in the revival of not only art and literature but also science and explorations of nature.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2023
"I think the critics are looking backwards to a gloried past, and fail to see the strategic picture vis a vis China and technology in a really disappointing way," he says.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2023
I had taken off my head covering because of the heat and then stood in the open and gloried in the cool rain as it beaded on my head.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022
She gloried in the off-beat dryness of Michelle Obama’s humor, the confidence in her long-limbed carriage, and then she mourned when Michelle Obama was clamped, flattened, made to sound tepidly wholesome in interviews.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It is doing so with an exclamation point, glorying in the repertory system enabled by its enormous budget and backstage forces, by which it can, astonishingly, present four titles in a single weekend.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2022
A video from Atlanta, in 2016, shows her glorying in one of her signature encores, “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 3, 2019
Ed. note: I will be on vacation next week, glorying in the delights of the 35th state so we will have to leave the mailbag aside for a while.
From Fox News ● Jul. 26, 2019
To watch her glorying in it makes me feel maternal.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 3, 2019
I should be glorying in seeing Cardan like this.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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