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[ri-veer] / rɪˈvɪər /


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Aegon’s descendants revere the Conqueror so highly that he has numerous prominent namesakes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

But many Serbs continued to revere a military commander who painted himself as a "simple man" whom fate had chosen to protect his people.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

There are people who absolutely genuinely love and revere him.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

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

Because of this, I had come to respect pain, even revere it, as necessary and untouchable.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

The 54-year-old has spent years collecting revolutionary memorabilia and reveres Castro as "the master."

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 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

Anxious to finish his shift in time for a celebratory dinner, he finds himself teamed with Travis, “the annoying new kid,” a chatterbox who conversely reveres Russell as a god.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025

If there be one from whom thou canst obtain the Norm Which He, the All-Awakened One, declared, Revere him, as a Brāhmaṇa The sacrificial fire reveres.

From The Buddha's Path of Virtue A Translation of the Dhammapada by Frank Lee Woodward

Bar Bayeux—a long, narrow club in Brooklyn, N.Y., that names cocktails for revered jazz musicians such as Herbie Nichols and Shirley Horn and frequently hosts first-rate bands—was packed one mid-September Saturday night.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

It was an eye-catching conjecture: one of the most revered of the Founding Fathers subjecting people held against their will to possibly painful shocks.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

The musician, whose real name was Gary Anderson, rose to fame as the frontman of Rose Tattoo, one of Australia's most revered rock bands, from 1976.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Now comes nerve-jangling Korean director Na Hong-jin, long a revered force in genre cinema thanks to “The Yellow Sea” and “The Wailing,” with his own bid for immortality, the alien-monster tempest “Hope.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

He was standing before the city’s most revered site, but his mind was still down in its bowels, remembering what he’d heard, the strange things the old woman had said.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

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

For you the Cyrenaic shell Behold I touch revering.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer


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