paean
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C. Thi Nguyen considers that possibility in “The Score,” a paean to all kinds of games, from Risk to Super Mario Bros.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
Emerging bluesman Sammie plays a song he wrote as a confession to his pastor father, a paean to the music he loves.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026
But as admiring as “Cover-Up” may be about Seymour Hersh, it is hardly a paean to American mass media.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025
The band members impressively stepped into the stunningly gorgeous harmonies of “New Mama,” Young’s delicate and heartwarming paean written after the birth of his first son.
From Salon • Aug. 19, 2025
They are greatly jubilant, and yield themselves to a very paean of rejoicing, their boasts and exulting shouts at intervals reverberating along the cliffs.
From The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora by Reid, Mayne
Vocabulary lists containing paean
Antigone
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"The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Poe's Favorite Words, collected by Charles Harrington Elster
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