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Japan's defence minister paid his respects Saturday at a shrine honouring the country's war dead that has long dogged Tokyo's relations with its Asian neighbours, but Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stayed away.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

It remained to be seen if the guidance would be adhered to on Saturday, with the shrine saying staff would "provide guidance" at the entrance to those "unaware".

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

A shrine in the entryway of Ruth Higdon’s home in Ridgway.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

News of the 52-year-old’s death went viral, along with a six-minute video manifesto he left behind, prompting demonstrations in Canada, France, Australia, India and elsewhere, including a floral shrine in front of the U.N.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

“The only other known jinn harp has her own shrine in a Tibetan sanctuary,” Grandpa explained.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

To Steve Jobs, they will build shrines; to his outgoing successor Tim Cook, they will dedicate case studies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

The main corridor linking the two golden shrines and the surrounding alleyways were once alive with the murmurs of tourists walking to prayers.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

In a salty touch, the first thing Kenna does is remove his roadside cross, claiming he hated memorial shrines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

Speaking on behalf of the Adunni Olorisha Trust, Akinsanya said the carver's "craftsmanship is visible in the ritual figures, majestic pillars, and beautifully crafted roofs adorning many of the shrines".

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026

‘Tour cousin paints well. In the old days, she would have been chosen to decorate the shrines of our gods.”

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Wherefore her heart, that had shrined a god, was now empty.

From The Stars in the Pool A Prose Poem for Lovers by Edna Kingsley Wallace

Yet we cannot forget thee, for, shrined in the heart, Is the memory of virtues that will not depart,— Generosity, candor, integrity, worth, An assemblage of all that is lovely on earth.

From Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life by Eliza Paul Gurney

And laughing, twined She round her bare white throat red rubies shrined In pearls.

From Lilith The Legend of the First Woman by Ada Langworthy Collier

You have been shrined in my heart since that second time we met, but I knew it was hopeless——" "Clever boy!

From White Fire by John Oxenham

Hastily casting down her gaze it fell upon a photograph of her husband, taken ten years or so ago, shrined in its silver frame amid the silver accessories of the dressing-table.

From A Sheaf of Corn by Mary E. Mann

The wisest soul, by anguish torn,   Will soon unlearn the lore it knew; And when the shrining casket's worn,   The gem within will tarnish too.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti

Bosomed with the Blessed One, He shall mind her of her Son, Once so folded from all harms, In her shrining arms.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Elsewhere he speaks of Tweed shrining the music of his cradle song, and the requiem he would most prefer—may that day be long in coming!

From In the Border Country by W. S.

Bosomed with the Blessed One, He shall mind her of her Son,    Once so folded from all harms     In her shrining arms.

From The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

"May all that cling to sprays of time, like me, Be sweetly wafted over sky and sea By rose-breaths shrining maidens like to thee!"

From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Sidney Lanier