revered
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Former South Africa captain Hansie Cronje was one of the most revered figures in his country.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 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
Our creativity and innovation, how we made music and movies and clothes and vaccines and lifesaving drugs and consumer goods revered the world over.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
In Burma, the revered revolutionary figure Aung San warmed to Imperial Japan because it had helped create the Burma Independence Army.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Past information might be revered, but in successive retellings it would become progressively more muddled and eventually lost.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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