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exalt

[ig-zawlt] / ɪgˈzɔlt /


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So to be holding that space and then to also be in this creator space that people respect and exalt in some sort of way is crazy to me.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 16, 2025

“Anzac Day has never asked us to exalt in the glories of war. Anzac Day asks us to stand against the erosion of time and to hold on to their names,” Albanese added.

From Seattle Times Apr. 24, 2024

Francis “certainly didn’t want to exalt imperialistic logic or government personalities, who were cited to indicate certain historic periods of reference,” Bruni said in a statement.

From Washington Times Aug. 29, 2023

But to compare Shree to Western writers is to miss the point of “Tomb of Sand”: to exalt Hindustan beyond the bloodstained legacy of its former colonial powers.

From Washington Post Feb. 3, 2023

Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it.

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

Mr. Stephens comments in a way that exalts the passage’s author: “Given this statement, it seems implausible that . . . Marcus bowed to trumpery.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 11, 2026

Southern Company exalts Plant Vogtle as a key clean energy asset.

From Washington Times Aug. 1, 2023

But that's the kind of thing that our culture exalts these days.

From Salon Jul. 19, 2023

“Harlem,” the vibrant series following four flawed and fabulous Black women tearing up Upper Manhattan, exalts female friendship above all else.

From Washington Post Feb. 3, 2023

It teaches justice to the mighty and the proud; it exalts the humble, and assures the down-trodden of redress.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.

Duchamp’s obsession with appearing detached from conventional aesthetic judgments elevated him to an exalted status among his peers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

She had an exalted view of her role as first lady, sometimes seeming to regard herself as a sort of deputy president.

From The Wall Street Journal May 11, 2026

In that, he is in exalted company - Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher are the others.

From BBC May 3, 2026

Bagharzadeh was the wife of Ali Khamenei but despite her husband's exalted position a figure of the lowest of profiles in Iran.

From Barron's Mar. 13, 2026

That he should be there now, a man of such exalted professional stature in an office so high above the city, would have come as a great and satisfying surprise to his late father.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

“I can’t describe how beautiful, calm, sacred, exciting, and exalting it was. It was just a dream,” she told the outlet.

From MarketWatch Dec. 29, 2025

She was an artful, innovative interpreter of other people’s songs, in the vein of Frank Sinatra, in an era when audiences—and especially critics—were exalting the singer-songwriter model instead.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 23, 2025

In famous Sistema fashion, they moved as a single organism, exalting in their oneness.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2024

TV viewers can watch the massive Globo network’s seven-year campaign exalting the sector.

From Seattle Times Jun. 3, 2024

The music stopped and the guests gathered in the main hall where a small, innocent priest, adorned with the vestments of high mass, read the complicated sermon he had written exalting confused and impracticable virtues.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende




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