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revere

[ri-veer] / rɪˈvɪər /


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Saylor is not an obvious candidate for jaded people to revere.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

"I still revere him very much," Xie Kaiyue, a 22-year-old local university student, said of Mao, who died almost three decades before she was born.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

There are people who absolutely genuinely love and revere him.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026

“Interested? My dear Hagrid, I revere them,” said Slughorn, stepping back from the body.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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

He doesn’t just tolerate monster cuisine—he reveres it.

From Salon ● May 12, 2025

"Say not that, Pilgrim! she so reveres my mother!"

From Edelweiss A Story by Berthold Auerbach

After his third unsuccessful run for the presidency in 2000, Cárdenas mostly retired from party politics, although he was revered by most Mexicans as a grand old man of the left.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Mao remains officially revered as the hero of the communist revolution and founder of the People's Republic of China.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

Among silver-screen romances, the Blake Lively-led odyssey across time, “The Age of Adaline,” isn’t exactly the most revered.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

It draws its beliefs from the teachings of Lord Swaminarayan, a late 18th-Century celibate ascetic who is regarded by his followers as an incarnation of Vishnu, the revered Hindu god of preservation.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

He was writing about Commando Special Forces, how popular and revered they were by civilians, but his dislike of their commander, a German mercenary, made his words stiff.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

Armstrong, who grew up revering Schulz, has a deep connection to Franklin.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

It wasn’t a big part, but Butler had grown up revering Tarantino’s work, and he wasn’t going to pass on the dream of working with him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2022

Rest to the uncrowned king, who, toiling, brought His bleeding country through that dreadful reign; Who, living, earned a world's revering thought, And, dying, leaves his name without a stain.

From The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President by Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline) Oldroyd


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