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adore

[uh-dawr, uh-dohr] / əˈdɔr, əˈdoʊr /


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But if you really adore the art form, Letterboxd’s popularity is a rare net positive in an era when tech is largely being used to pit humanity against art and each other.

From Salon Jul. 15, 2026

“As a full-time solo RV woman I absolutely adore this!” one person wrote.

From MarketWatch Jul. 8, 2026

Then enters Mike Doonesbury, scraggly-haired and pointy-nosed, claiming improbably that “women adore me.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

"You have an audience that adore you. An audience that enjoy the content," he wrote.

From BBC Jun. 3, 2026

“But you adore lunch, as do I. It’s one of the things we have in common.”

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

The 54-year-old fisherman from a small village in Polewali Mandar, West Sulawesi, has been a superfan of the Argentine football team since the 1980s and adores superstar Lionel Messi.

From Barron's Jun. 12, 2026

The kid’s joy is as stratospheric as the plane; he adores everything but the airline’s chicken cordon bleu.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2026

If the best way to hit it big is to make a podcast that someone like Altman adores, then the rest of us are probably in trouble.

From Slate Apr. 7, 2026

Its founder Vaughan Smith, who was also in the Army, said: "He was one of the characters – those people who stand out because everybody adores them and they make you feel better."

From BBC Mar. 1, 2026

In the drawing room above the piano from Aunt Cornelie, they’ve hung a large landscape of Vincent’s, one that Jo adores.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

The meals of hot dogs and tinned fruit were revelatory to children used to the flavorings of ginger and kimchi: “This was straight-up American food, wholesome, facile, and inert, and we adored it.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

Having last worked with Cricket during a UK-wide comedy tour, Biggins added that late comedian was "a genius" providing "simple humour that the public adored".

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

“It was dishonest work, and barely paid the bills, but Sterling adored it.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

The futile paradox of these so-called live-action adaptations is they require a tsunami of pixels to surround actual human performers with everything audiences adored the first time.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

She had tired almost instantly of the Poe poems they had read from Naomi’s English book, but Beto adored their “gloomy splendor.”

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

Like Grande to her adoring fans, Maddie is Deena’s idol, and Deena measures Maddie’s success by her work benchmarks and public visibility.

From Salon Aug. 8, 2026

Mboladinga, 49, sometimes called the “grandson of Lumumba” by adoring fans, says he is pleased that he will be bringing Lumumba’s legacy to the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

By winning the Italian Open in front of an adoring home crowd on Sunday, 24-year-old Sinner completed the full set of nine ATP Masters 1000 titles - known as the ‘career Golden Masters’.

From BBC May 17, 2026

It is their first trip to Australia since 2018, when they spent two weeks touring the country as well as New Zealand and Pacific islands in a visit that drew adoring throngs of crowds.

From Barron's Apr. 14, 2026

He would stand and gaze up at her with adoring eyes.

From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White




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