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It’s been a beacon of democracy since its founding, and countries all over the world have held it in such high esteem.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

Her colleagues’ execution of Sosa, she bemoaned, “marks yet another low point in this court’s esteem for its precedents.”

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

Robert Coover’s “The Universal Baseball Association Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.” has grown in esteem since the novel was first published in 1968.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Not too long ago, “Bridgerton” was held in the highest esteem in the meeting place between TV fantasy and drab reality.

From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2026

By firelight Dr. Philobosian reads for the fifth time that night “ ‘... is respectfully recommended ... to the esteem, confidence, and protection .

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

“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

This is not contributing to a culture that esteems them.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2012

Friendship therefore he prizes as the dearest of earth's possessions, and wedlock he esteems holy because in it is cemented the union of two souls for the common search of truth.

From Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses by Felix Adler

City remain in talks to sign 18-year-old midfielder Ayyoub Bouaddi from Lille, but it would be a big ask for the Moroccan teenager to fill such esteemed boots.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Ronald Lauder’s esteemed collection of German and Austrian art will be owned and operated by the Met starting in 2028.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 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

“Yes, of course, Shelibar. Though my esteemed colleague may not remember Mubiel’s Harnessing the Dark and Light. Which is really much less superstitious than Shelibar.”

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

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

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 Amos Bronson Alcott

They who prize virtue never esteem the unworthy; and it is not possible to know thy excellent heart and manly nature, without esteeming thee.

From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by J. Fenimore Cooper

I acknowledged the favour, and chose the latter as my duty, esteeming it a happiness to be allowed to console and to serve my anxious husband, afflicted as he subsequently was by illness.

From Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 by Leonora Christina Ulfeldt