bask
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There’s ample media coverage of older Americans who bask in apparent paradise somewhere far from home.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
When we are young, we get to bask in undiluted parental attention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Rabbi Daniel Sher, also of Kehillat Israel, said he received texts from rabbis across the city encouraging him to bask in the moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
Instead, he was content to bask in the attention at the podium, while keeping his ambitions to himself.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
At other times, such as tonight, she was content to bask in Ambuya's affection.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
For all his talk of how draining the job is - and that much is beyond dispute - he clearly basks in it.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
While Guy basks in professional success, Rosemary begins to wilt, enduring intense pain and flashbacks to a nightmare she had on the night of conception.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
As Ryan Coogler basks in the critical and commercial triumphs of his latest film, “Sinners,” he turns a mirror back on the people who helped make that success possible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2025
Like the woodpeckers, it is adapted to open-canopied longleaf forests, where it basks in the sun, feeds on herbaceous plants and digs deep burrows in the sandy soil.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2023
He grins at me as he basks in it.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
With a broad smile, he took in the scene and basked in the adulation of a crowd that viewed him as a hero.
From Slate ● May 20, 2026
He has basked in his country's military superiority, saying the current conflict has already changed the Middle East, and that Israel is now a regional power and, in some respects, a global one.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
South Korean fans and media basked in the success of "KPop Demon Hunters" on Monday after the film clinched two Oscars and added to the country's growing pantheon of cultural hits.
From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026
If it all works out, Snead might just celebrate another Super Bowl win the same way he basked in the first one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
There on the strip, we hugged and high-fived and basked in our glory.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
The company’s stock is still basking in the glow of its “exceptionally strong” June-quarter earnings report, which reinforced investors’ confidence that its AI investments are generating returns, Lee added.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
The finding supports the picture of T. rex as an active predator or scavenger with a relatively fast metabolism rather than a sluggish animal that depended heavily on basking in the sun.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
On the whole, this is all such foolishness, doing no favors to a Texas team that should be basking in a historic win.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Infantino had been basking in the warm afterglow of a highly successful World Cup -- the largest ever with 48 teams and co-hosted by three countries, Canada, Mexico and the US.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
The Sverissons and the Fischers would go on weekend outings to the countryside, staying at friendly inns and basking in the majestic lunarlike countryside of Iceland.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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