adore
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But the ambitious young women who adore them don’t really understand them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
"We are best mates. What you see on screen is very much our real life relationship, we adore each other. I can't wait for the world to meet all of them," says Rex.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
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
“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
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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
Like Daphne, Patchett is married to an older man — also a doctor — whom she adores.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 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
Martin, who turns 74 on Sunday, reached his milestone with Celtic, a club he adores, so it must have been something special.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
Because he adores our mother and knew we could never afford it, Peter pretended not to like it.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
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Despite this, she’s universally adored across the political spectrum.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
Parton adored Stallone, whom she called “better than popcorn.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
“And that is important because the people who loved and adored Hayden deserve the truth.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
"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
My younger brothers adored running the machine and begged to take a turn, but you had to watch them—they were murder on the crank.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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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
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
When I look over my shoulder, I see Jamie watching me with the same adoring smile he has from the first time I met him.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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