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adore

[uh-dawr, uh-dohr] / əˈdɔr, əˈdoʊr /


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"I absolutely adore my children," Alex says, particularly now they are old enough to play football with.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

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

From MarketWatch Jul. 8, 2026

Many people still adore him, for whatever reason.

From Salon Jun. 19, 2026

Build a character we’d adore and kill them, from nowhere, in the second to last episode of the season.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 1, 2026

“You mean Richard Krupp? I don’t like Richard because he’s an arrogant jerk. But he is the top-rated anchor in Saint Pete. The viewers adore him. And he hates me.”

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

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

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

As much as he adores the album, Sahanaja finds it amusing that anyone in the Beach Boys’ camp might have expected Wilson to try to give rock fans what they wanted.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 27, 2026

It's what my own mother always does when she wants me to know—really know—that she adores me.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

"She always dined out on this story and she always called Paul McCartney Paul McCarty. But she adored The Beatles."

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

Nacua isn’t tolerated for his talent; he’s adored for his spirit.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

He purchased the truck after an accident totaled his older Ranger, which he also adored.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

Slate Auto’s all-electric truck aims to prove that affordable cars can be both profitable and adored.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 24, 2026

She seemed the emblem of my past life; and he, I was now to array myself to meet, the dread, but adored, type of my unknown future day.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

But since then he has done exactly that, many times and to great effect for adoring fans around the world throughout the band's big-selling reunion tour last year.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

After the final whistle, striker Mehdi Taremi thanked the adoring crowd but decried the impact of the war on his squad, from absent staff to grueling travel.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 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

If he isn't interested in his adoring fans, he isn't going to want a single thing to do with me.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman




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