exalt

We certainly don't fault them for their bad decision-making skills — we exalt them.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2024

She was taken at her prime, which leaves space for others to continue to exalt her cultural impact and memorialize her through art and merchandise, usually with reverence and loving intentions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 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

In a curious way, many people simultaneously exalt and dismiss mathematicians and scientists as impractical whizzes.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

He echoes throughout her work, in her sense of ecstasy, in how she exalts the world around her, down to the humble leaf of grass.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

At a time when our right to protest is under siege, this sci-fi yarn exalts the way an individual’s conviction can plant seeds of change, leading to a stronger sense of community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 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

Let it suffice here to remark that those virtues which he the most earnestly commends and the most highly exalts in his writings, he the most constantly exercised in his own person.

From A Mediaeval Mystic A Short Account of the Life and Writings of Blessed John Ruysbroeck, Canon Regular of Groenendael A.D. 1293-1381 by Vincent Scully

“As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors,” he reflected, “the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

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

Scotland are there and they have a chance to do what none of their exalted predecessors have done.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026

I guess what I’m getting at is: It didn’t feel exalted, but I felt purpose and that it was OK to have some responsibility — like a pastor with a congregation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026

It was something to pull me out of my limited mortal ways and thrust me into a state of exalted wonder.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

His “more real” is frustrating, pleasurable, terrifying, exalting, and as familiar as our own peculiar families.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026

“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

“I’ve danced my whole life and dance is such an exalting, exciting human expression,” Zakowska says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025

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