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acclaim

[uh-kleym] / əˈkleɪm /




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Panettiere, who earned acclaim for her roles as a cheerleader with supernatural powers on the TV show “Heroes” and as a troubled country music diva on the show “Nashville,” was 36.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

Their title bid last year garnered worldwide acclaim, but building on that benchmark is a tough ask.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

Despite the acclaim his Birmingham restaurant The Wilderness commands, Claridge says the reality behind the kitchen doors is one of soaring costs, shrinking margins and constant uncertainty.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

Turkish-made drones earned international acclaim after Ukraine used them to blow up columns of invading Russian military vehicles in 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 4, 2026

Bobby didn’t expect to earn the same acclaim, nor did he think he’d melt any diplomatic ice.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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, with medals, scrolls, plaques, sonorous words and sometimes money, Science acclaims industrial and academic workers for outstanding achievement.

From Time Magazine Archive

Except for a few saints and poets, whom he acclaims with a lyric ardor, the population is sunk in greed and hypocrisy and—as if this were actually the worst of all—complacent apathy.

From Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) by Carl Van Doren

Some rank among Scott’s most acclaimed films; others are still being argued over.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

Featuring tracks like “Savage” and “Selfish,” the critically acclaimed project paved the way for them to release two hit sequels.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

Prabhakar had assigned “Bettering Myself,” a short story by acclaimed author Ottessa Moshfegh, in her Freshman English II course.

From Salon Aug. 2, 2026

The Thank U, Next and 7 Rings singer was billed to appear alongside her Wicked co-star, British actor Jonathan Bailey in the new production of Sondheim's critically acclaimed 1984 musical.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

From the moment the acclaimed contralto Marian Anderson announced a performance at the college’s Ogden Hall, the two women knew they would go together.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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 that had not prevented others from acclaiming him as a hero.

From New York Times Oct. 14, 2018

As the debate about our slatternly disposal of plastics was raging down on Earth we were all acclaiming a fresh addition to the garbage dump swirling above us in space.

From The Guardian Feb. 10, 2018

He confessed as much to the left-wing American writer Anna Louise Strong in 1958, when she was about to write a book acclaiming Mao's Great Leap Forward.

From BBC Dec. 25, 2013

To-day east and west vie in acclaiming the present Heir-Apparent to the British throne with an affection as genuine as it is evident.

From Canada by Sir John George Bourinot




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