fawning

Example Sentences

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It is an unusually nuanced take on a subject that too often generates reflexive fulminating or fawning, and a truly auspicious start to the New Museum’s new chapter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

The culprits were Gen-Zers fawning over how cute cozy Snoopy was, often on social media.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

Is it a parable about the dangers posed by artificial intelligence and the fawning tendencies of large language models?

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2025

Saint-Simon knew that when kings embrace their own flattery, they open themselves to manipulation, and the writer viewed Louis XIV as an illusory absolutist who was in fact controlled by fawning scoundrels.

From Slate • May 30, 2025

Gollum raised himself and began pawing at Frodo, fawning at his knees.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien