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paean

[pee-uhn] / ˈpi ən /


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The Nov. 26 editorial “Chris Ruddy’s Paean to TV Regulation” misstated the owner.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

Appeared in the November 26, 2025, print edition as 'Chris Ruddy’s Paean to TV Regulation'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

To answer just such a whim, Farrow & Ball has introduced Paean Black, named for the color of an old prayer book’s leather cover.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 11, 2019

Paean" to the London sewer system: "Magnificent, too, is the system of drains,/ Exceeding the far-spoken wonders of old/ .

From Time Magazine Archive

Suddenly, Edmund, whose eyes were fixed with intensity upon the scene, remarked, half shuddering: "It is the great Paean."

From A Columbus of Space by Serviss, Garrett Putman




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