esteem

A French speaker, Leo had expressed on various occasions "the great esteem in which he holds our country and her spiritual history", Aveline said earlier in May.

From Barron's ● May 16, 2026

Most countries hold us in remarkably lower esteem today than they did a year ago.

From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2026

Mentoring played a massive part in my upbringing, and sports teachers and coaches were always held in great esteem.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026

Frederiksen had previously won international esteem and a degree of influence rarely afforded her nation of six million people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

Yet despite its esteem problem, the humble contraction is used every day by virtually everyone, and has been for centuries.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

Freaks are scroungers, thrifters, salvagers; they’re unmatched in their ability to repurpose the discarded, to find value in things — and in people — that it sometimes seems nobody else wants or esteems.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2024

“I know that he esteems her a lot, like all the Jesuits of Argentina and Uruguay, because they consider her their spiritual mother,” Correale told The Associated Press in the runup to the ceremony.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 11, 2024

The great irony, or the sublime absurdity, is that like a priest who practices his faith after the death of God, Daoud esteems Camus even as he exposes the Nobel Prize-winning writer’s blind spots.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2015

PEN esteems not only exquisite literature, but also the right of all people to express themselves.

From Slate ● May 6, 2015

He that knows himself best, esteems himself least.

From Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words by Preston, Thomas

In a country that esteemed practicality, fiction was enlisted to speak directly to a cause.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

In 1995, this risky act helped the family secure the esteemed Payaso de Oro: the top prize at the International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo, an award comparable to soccer’s Ballon d’Or or music’s Grammy.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

Immigrants lived near the mission, and esteemed Spanish Mexican families lived in large mansions around the churches that dot Old Town in the mid-19th century — many came post-Spanish-Mexican wars.

From Salon ● May 9, 2026

The 36-year-old, who co-ran the esteemed Fulgurances restaurant in Paris and New York before opening Gigi's this month, said his pricing falls in line with industry standards.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

There were mostly retired warriors listed, occasionally the name of an esteemed master scholar of the temple.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

What nudged Americans from esteeming fastidious high-culture figures like Muck to idolizing personally crude pop-culture stars like Ruth?

From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2020

The Russians, esteeming ceremony as a proud proletarian power should, outdid themselves in welcome.

From Time Magazine Archive

In point of fact, they did not abandon their idea for an hour, esteeming themselves the only men in Paris who had not lost their heads.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.

With an education so neglected as mine, I should run the hazard of either unjustly depreciating my own judgment, or what is worse, esteeming it at more than its worth.

From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

And this he did from a sense of its suitableness to promote the best ends and aims; esteeming his gifts and accomplishments due to pursuits which seemed the natural means of securing self-respect and independence.

From Tablets by Alcott, Amos Bronson