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revere

[ri-veer] / rɪˈvɪər /


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As it happens, Hegseth wasn’t alone in offending the entire Western world, which he purports to revere.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026

It blinds us to its biases, and serves as free marketing for the AI companies, who benefit when we fear and revere their creations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

Iran has about 90 million people, many of whom despise the regime, many of whom revere it.

From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2026

To imagine this woman we all revere — it’s impossible to imagine her doing it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

It was the awesomeness of my reason to revere him.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

The 54-year-old has spent years collecting revolutionary memorabilia and reveres Castro as "the master."

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

He belongs to a Hindu sect that reveres nature and follows strict vegetarianism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

As somebody who has come up through the department, who reveres it, what do the two sides of that coin look like?

From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025

The film reveres these women not for their perfection or their myth, but for their work.

From Salon ● May 18, 2025

The Muslim holy book, the Koran, reveres Jesus and His mother, Mary.

From The Saracen: Land of the Infidel by Robert Shea

It was an eye-catching conjecture: one of the most revered of the Founding Fathers subjecting people held against their will to possibly painful shocks.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

The musician, whose real name was Gary Anderson, rose to fame as the frontman of Rose Tattoo, one of Australia's most revered rock bands, from 1976.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

In Burma, the revered revolutionary figure Aung San warmed to Imperial Japan because it had helped create the Burma Independence Army.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Now comes nerve-jangling Korean director Na Hong-jin, long a revered force in genre cinema thanks to “The Yellow Sea” and “The Wailing,” with his own bid for immortality, the alien-monster tempest “Hope.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Atahuallpa was revered by the Incas as a sun-god and exercised absolute authority over his subjects, who obeyed even the orders he issued from captivity.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The film purports to show how socioeconomic inequality is a result of “the cultural pendulum swinging too far towards revering things we consider ‘masculine,’ like individualism, power, and money,” according to the nonprofit’s website.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

"This tells me about the whole community, this tells me about how they were thinking, how they were behaving, how they were revering the heavens."

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

The North’s main Rodong Sinmun newspaper said North Korea is revering Kim Il Sung as “eternal president” under the “outstanding leadership of comrade Kim Jong Un.”

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 14, 2022

Duterte’s supporters began revering Ronald dela Rosa, his shaven-headed chief of the National Police, who took on a rock star image and had women screaming in adoration in the streets.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2021

Brave, chivalrous, generous, loving God and revering woman, General Temple was as near a monster of perfection as could be imagined, except when he had the gout.

From Throckmorton by Molly Elliot Seawell




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