paean

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The postwar period is rife with big names who used brands as both a pastiche of and paean to America’s consumer culture: Richard Prince, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, Eduardo Paolozzi and—king of them all—Andy Warhol.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 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

My heart, long o'erloaded and leaden, Now bounds to the blue like a bird; The shadow has shifted; with paean uplifted I hail that "last word"!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 5, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir