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revere

[ri-veer] / rɪˈvɪər /


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At the Louvre, the impulse is not to revere Franklin, gazing out from inside his vitrine, but to approach him—to bend down, to look him in the eye.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

The site is considered holy to Christians – who revere it as the site of Jesus's last Supper – and to Jews who see it as the tomb of the biblical King David.

From BBC May 1, 2026

Under long‑standing arrangements, Jews may visit the compound -- which they revere as the site of the first and second Jewish temples -- but they are not permitted to pray there.

From Barron's Apr. 9, 2026

Kikuo and Shunsuke revere kabuki’s bygone giants, who are affixed with that moniker.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 20, 2026

“He often infuriates me, but he’s old. I’ve been taught to revere and obey such people. It’s just...built in.”

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

A Shiite cleric, he lives frugally and was brought up in a religious tradition that reveres martyrdom.

From Barron's Jan. 29, 2026

As somebody who has come up through the department, who reveres it, what do the two sides of that coin look like?

From Slate Nov. 24, 2025

His wife, whom Mr. Murray plainly reveres, is a Quaker who doesn’t care all that much about the factual questions that bother him in this book.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 17, 2025

Clayton Kershaw was at the center of the Dodgers experience over the last 18 years, becoming a legend for the team and a city that reveres its sports legends.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2025

He greatly reveres the memory of his illustrious uncle and loves to dwell on his many noble traits of character.

From Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? by Remsburg, John B.

Police launched an investigation in June and arrested eight people responsible for handling donations at the revered Hindu shrine in the northern city of Ayodhya.

From Barron's Jul. 19, 2026

How John Trumbull’s revered depiction of July 4, 1776, mixes fiction and fact.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

Douglass, of course, lived in the 19th century and has long been revered as an American icon, and Jackson had been dead 16 years before the Civil War even started.

From Salon Jul. 2, 2026

As much as he was revered during his nearly two decades as Fed chairman for protecting the stock market from a series of crashes and near-crashes, his obituaries take a more measured view.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 25, 2026

Charles Darwin was a person to be revered.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

The film purports to show how socioeconomic inequality is a result of “the cultural pendulum swinging too far towards revering things we consider ‘masculine,’ like individualism, power, and money,” according to the nonprofit’s website.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

"This tells me about the whole community, this tells me about how they were thinking, how they were behaving, how they were revering the heavens."

From BBC Jun. 17, 2026

Daniels in the third episode recalls revering Al Kaline, who played right field for the Detroit Tigers and made everything look easy.

From Seattle Times Sep. 6, 2023

But know this: Parenting culture is moving toward greater respect for all while still caring for and revering our elders.

From Washington Post Mar. 22, 2023

The child may revere as very wise, some person whom the parents know not to be so: but they may join their child in revering the wisdom which they know to be his ideal.

From Household Education by Martineau, Harriet




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