acclaim
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Their 2019 debut, “Dogrel,” was met with critical acclaim, a masterful album with references to James Joyce and a teeming garage-style production.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Barr revises the work, altering identifying details, and publishes it to acclaim as a novel of his own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
But Bill Pay was clearly not aiming for highbrow acclaim in the way Barbie aimed for the Oscars.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
Just a year later, the Thomas Tunnock lifeboat, named in honour of the businessman's late brother and grandfather, was launched to great acclaim.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Yet it was only after she toured Europe to great acclaim in the early 1930s that her artistry was recognized in her own homeland.
From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman
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When Mr. Marx acclaims “Old Town Road” as an “incredible homegrown feat,” he praises what he damns elsewhere as the second sickness of our age.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
In a review headlined “Flaunting It,” New York Times book critic Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote, “George Lois may be nearly as great a genius of mass communication as he acclaims himself to be.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 21, 2022
There are countless ways to get B’s and C’s without building the “creativity, leadership and teamwork skills” that Mr. Grant rightly acclaims.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2018
Each midwinter Science acclaims outstanding workers in schools, factories and offices by means of medals, prizes, publicity.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He did to admiration, amid excited acclaims, his four cream-colored mares fairly flying along the straights and taking the turns at a pace which made us hold our breath.
From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by Edward Lucas White
“The Sopranos” star and his wife, Maureen Van Zandt—who also played his on-screen spouse in the iconic HBO show—snapped up the home in 2008, about a year after the finale of the critically acclaimed series.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
It went to on to win a record-breaking six Brit Awards, including album of the year, and was nominated for the acclaimed Mercury Prize.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
It marks Rock’s follow-up to Top Five, his critically acclaimed 2014 rom-com.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
You’re still having to learn a vast repertoire of another band and accommodate your style as a working professional and acclaimed musician of many years into someone else’s.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
Nearly a decade later, in December 1939, the acclaimed newspaper reporter Ernie Pyle stopped at La Tuna prison, near El Paso, Texas.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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Harold’s knights pivot from acclaiming him with open palms and loyal smiles to pointing fearfully at the heavens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
The installations, unveiled last week, include an oversize rendering of Rome’s ubiquitous drinking fountains and a giant wooden doorstop, acclaiming Rome as an open city.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2021
Pundits worldwide were united in acclaiming it as one of the best England performances of all time, if not the very best.
From Reuters ● Nov. 2, 2019
But no one is loudly acclaiming you for it.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 6, 2016
In the crush of the Avenue was the note of home-coming, in taxicabs and coupés piled high with luggage and brown-faced children hanging at the windows, acclaiming familiar landmarks with piping cries.
From Making Money by Owen Johnson
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