glory
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But through the high-power binoculars our guide passed out to the 23 passengers, the creatures revealed themselves in all their diminutive glory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Dave’s Hot Chicken has adopted a similar premise for its spicier entry into the market, but for many Caniacs, nothing beats the stripped-down glory of the original.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
A season of glory and a season of angst.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
"The life of comrade Zhu Rongji was a life of revolution, a life of struggle, a life of glory," an obituary jointly issued by China's top political bodies said, according to Xinhua.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Marco’s cart drew closer in all its polished, shining glory.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
Sometimes they featured celebrities recounting past glories or promoting their newest releases.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
“Lonely in the Future,” which in part explains why the Strokes have no wish to replicate past glories, is the most direct song on the record.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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
For he desired in his soul, with fear and trembling, all the glories that his mother prayed he should find.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
I also gloried in writing high school sports stories for 10 cents an inch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
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
I think they gloried in my squalor as proof of my baseness.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
She said he "wasn't provided with the assistance he required" in the community, adding the way he "vacillates" when talking to police make it difficult to indicate "wilful glorying" over the death.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2021
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
Theresa gave an encore; the family leaned over the rail like operagoers, glorying in the sound.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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