respect
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Barrett described many versions of these reforms as “complex,” “tricky,” and filled with “awkwardness” in determining how to create an office that would respect the court’s rule as both independent and constitutionally supreme.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2026
For now, Xi is careful to treat Putin with respect in public even as he seeks to extract concessions in private.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
According to Segura, there was no flirtation in the early days, and he treated her with the respect he did any other fellow comic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
“He has honestly exquisite taste—everything from the finishes, to the design and lighting—I really respect his style.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
They snuggled together, and before the scene where Commander Calvados wins over the respect of the crew by piloting the ship through a black hole, they’d both fallen asleep.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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People left candles, stuffed animals, notes and more as they paid their respects to Salgado Araujo, whose family said had lived in Houston for 35 years.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was conspicuously absent from his father's funeral, as senior regime figures joined thousands paying their respects to the late ayatollah on Sunday.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
Foreign dignitaries, including officials from Russia and China, paid respects as Khamenei’s body began a multicity procession to Iraq.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Thomas’ dissent is, in many respects, more emotionally complex than either his admirers or his critics, like me, were at first blush ready to admit.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
Aristotelian science was not like this: Aristotelian philosophers had no sense that their knowledge was incomplete in important respects, and they thus had a different measure of success from a Galileo or a Pascal.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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The survey also found that while more people still believed the US government respected its people's personal freedoms than China's government did, the gap had narrowed.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
He is the most respected financial officer in U.S. history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Dharmesh Patel was a respected radiologist who appeared to live an idyllic family life in a peaceful Pasadena cul-de-sac.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Public rebukes followed Hegseth’s decision last month to effectively fire Gen. Chris Donahue, a respected four-star commander who came up the ranks through the special forces.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
Instead, respected men who believed in the sisters’ spirits flooded newspapers with letters to the editor.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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“Kalibrate is committed to serving its customers with lawful, innovative fuel-pricing technology, and we remain focused on supporting our customers while respecting the litigation process.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Ronaldo fans flooded the social media accounts of Neves, Bruno Fernandes and others, accusing them of not respecting the Portugal captain.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
“The companies building these technologies understand that trust is essential to long-term success, and trust begins with respecting creators’ rights,” Stiggers said in a statement to The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
It proposes a global agreement on how to potentially slow development and a mechanism for verifying that competitors are respecting it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
He lectured you about respecting your elders and then let me play with the keyboard until your grounding was over, which was kind of awesome.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
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