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admirable

[ad-mer-uh-buhl] / ˈæd mər ə bəl /


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This may seem admirable, but only if you ignore that you’re being treated like a 9-year-old.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Comprehensive peace in the region is an admirable goal, one that the U.S. should strive toward.

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

Mr. Mikhail is a professor of history at Yale and the author of admirable books on the Ottomans.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Jack Thorne, who co-wrote last year’s prize-winning “Adolescence,” returns with another story of fractured childhood with an admirable, engrossing new adaptation of William Golding’s much-taught novel of boy castaways, “The Lord of the Flies.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

This ordered and admirable character of the universe was called Cosmos.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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