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glory

[glawr-ee] / ˈglɔr i /




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James, along with Sawitskas and his pals, want the carousel to be restored to its original glory, a magnificent, gleaming merry-go-round that inspired Disney to dream.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Oh, I long for the glory days of … Clay Helton!

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Like Warrington, Wakefield have waited a long time to return to league glory, with a 58-year gap since their last title.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

"Today, the entire world is proud of him. I urge my fellow citizens to pray for Smit's long life and excellent health, and to salute Smit, who has brought glory to India."

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Caterpillars, in all their strange and changeable glory, would play the starring role.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

The team studied morning glories as part of a broader effort to understand how human-caused global change is shaping evolution.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

He remained a hero to swathes of his countrymen, who saw in him the Serbian martial spirit and an echo of the past glories of their nation.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

They chose a uniform style, neoclassical, meaning the buildings would have columns and pediments and evoke the glories of ancient Rome.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Imagine how popular that was to the hot-rodders and cruisers and suburban commuters who gloried in being two- or three-car households.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2023

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

During his last years, while he lived at Mount Vernon and worked as a shoemaker, he gloried in telling tales of life with Washington during the war.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

The absurdity of glorying in such minor athletic triumphs has never been captured more lovingly and amusingly than in a special released this year by Kenny DeForest.

From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2023

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

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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