adore
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Managers have leaned on him, team-mates respect him, and fans of all generations adore him.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
But why do people adore it more than a decade on?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
All five banks reported billions of dollars in stock repurchases last quarter, which shareholders adore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
“As a full-time solo RV woman I absolutely adore this!” one person wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
It’s almost as though she knows that I have other things to worry about, and I adore her for it.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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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
“There are confused feelings that Caroline goes through because she absolutely adores and loves her husband.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 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
Mr. Jacobs also adores the look of the taxi dancers—“broken dolls,” he calls them—in Bob Fosse’s movie “Sweet Charity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
“A big grey one. She has a web across the top of Wilbur’s doorway. She catches flies and sucks their blood. Wilbur adores her.”
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
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After a failed first marriage and a dalliance with Barbara Stanwyck, he married a charming widow, Lucille “Lu” Reyburn, who adored him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Matthews was adored by a generation, an outside right who became an icon.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
He was “smart as hell,” and adored his hometown of Atlanta, said his cousin She L. Robinson, a publicist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Sorkin must have adored that earlier film’s opening scene where Rooney Mara insults a clueless Jesse Eisenberg because he’s written three-dozen takes on it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
But she was already on a career path that would soon turn her into one of her Motherland’s most important and adored aviators of all time.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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Even so, there were signs the band would attract an adoring legion of fans.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
"I love color. I love painting. I love shapes. I love composition. I love the people all around me. I'm adoring it all. My legacy is in the hands of other people."
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Little is known about Graham—or, apparently, by Graham—and it’s not as if the state’s right wing was ever adoring of her late brother.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026
On “Me Against the World,” that came in the form of “Dear Mama,” an adoring tribute to his mother, the activist and former Black Panther Afeni Shakur.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
We were paraded across stages before adoring audiences, chauffeured about in limousines, and treated like royalty at luxurious hotels.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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