estimable

Example Sentences

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The estimable Fred Kagan of the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute says the “optimal end game” for the U.S. now is to prove it can reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

The book is ostensibly “authored” by McCartney even though it is an oral history that has been edited by Ted Widmer, an estimable historian and a former speechwriter for Bill Clinton.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

I was hoping Joe would feel some similarly competitive outrage toward the rolling trapezoid, deficient in Americana, ignorant of history, nothing like the estimable Hummer.

From Slate • Jun. 22, 2025

Zeena Parkins, the estimable harpist and composer, recalled starting there as a fledgling sound engineer in 1986, soaking up all the sounds on offer.

From New York Times • May 18, 2024

I found estimable characters amongst them—characters desirous of information and disposed for improvement—with whom I passed many a pleasant evening hour in their own homes.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë