reverence
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“He’s a guy that I have familiarity with, history and a lot of reverence for because of the gratitude from our experiences together.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
Individuals all over the country were fired from their jobs, shunned, ostracized and run out of town for insufficient reverence for Kirk on social media.
From Salon • Mar. 12, 2026
But the Young 40 memes also represent Korean youth's growing scepticism of this almost forced reverence for elders.
From BBC • Jan. 17, 2026
Missing in all this is any reverence for or even superstitious fear of the dead.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
She bent down in a hasty bow, so similar to the pose of all the whatnots frozen in reverence behind them, outside the door.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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