cherished

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Drawing boldly from her own life and the loss of a cherished friend, the best-selling author delivers a spare, witty and incandescent story about family trauma and the mysteries of memory.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

"You are like the wind at daybreak, you are like a cherished vision," he sings in a direct address to the horse, named Rovach.

From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026

Cases like Kelver’s expose key contradictions at the heart of our cherished rhetoric of armed self-defense.

From Slate • Jun. 4, 2026

"Kevin holds a unique and cherished place in the history of Newcastle United, and in the hearts of our supporters," it read.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

That just as the theories of Ptolemy and Newton seemed perfectly satisfactory for centuries, so too our most cherished theories will one day be supplanted.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton