sanctify
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It is that the law will sanctify it.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2025
These shrines laden with incense, flowers and other offerings sanctify its gardens, waters and the surrounding landscape, and they highlight the psychic malaise dominating most of its visitors.
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2025
Her connection to her mother remains frayed while she continues to sanctify Minh.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2023
Enshrined, meaning to cherish, revere, exalt, consecrate and sanctify, is a word of dignity and respect now side-by-side with same-sex marriages and families, and interracial families.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
“We will sanctify it anew to the god of love.”
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
He said he was "glad that Israel will participate again in Eurovision and I hope that the competition will remain one that sanctifies culture, poetry, and friendship between peoples and cross-border cultural understanding".
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2025
Many of the minimal and conceptual artists that Dia sanctifies upstairs worked in converted lofts in the 1960s and 1970s, of course.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2020
That movie sanctifies ignorance, whereas Heller’s, equally gentle, explores not simplemindedness so much as simplicity, a rarer gift.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 15, 2019
Your own mind sanctifies and stains the glass.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2018
It signifies wealth, evokes the closeness of family, and sanctifies a proper meal.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
No one should ever be above skepticism no matter how sanctified and righteous they may seem — that’s why the New York Times investigation crashed into the Chicano collective sense of self like a meteor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026
Not Section 60, where the atmosphere is sanctified but not somber—too many kids, Meredith recalled from her visits to her son’s burial site.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2024
“Here, communication between man and God takes place,” said Lyngdoh, a descendant of the priestly clan which sanctified the Mawphlang forest.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
The family-friendly circus act “White Gold,” presented by the Cambodian Circus ensemble Phare and playing now at New Victory Theater, details the nation’s inextricable link to the sanctified crop.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
I hunger for prasad, that sugary offering to God that comes back to us as a sanctified treat.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
As I take steps in teaching, sanctifying and leading, I hope to listen more than I speak and to learn from the people entrusted to my care.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Given that prescriptive outlook, the NASA-commissioned Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study is raising a “we’re from the government, and we’re here to help” flag while sanctifying a scientific look at aerial weirdness.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 9, 2023
One prayer was read in memory of the “Kedoshim of Pittsburgh, murdered al kiddush Hashem” — holy martyrs, killed while sanctifying God’s name.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2023
“Anne’s final gift to us was dying in the state of sanctifying grace. We know we will one day be reunited with her in God’s kingdom.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 31, 2022
“They poop moonbeams, dimes and quarters, and sanctifying grace.”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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