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revere

[ri-veer] / rɪˈvɪər /


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At the Louvre, the impulse is not to revere Franklin, gazing out from inside his vitrine, but to approach him—to bend down, to look him in the eye.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

The site is considered holy to Christians – who revere it as the site of Jesus's last Supper – and to Jews who see it as the tomb of the biblical King David.

From BBC May 1, 2026

Under long‑standing arrangements, Jews may visit the compound -- which they revere as the site of the first and second Jewish temples -- but they are not permitted to pray there.

From Barron's Apr. 9, 2026

Without anything divine to revere, American home and landscape design largely genuflects at the altar of the market.

From Salon Aug. 23, 2025

“Interested? My dear Hagrid, I revere them,” said Slughorn, stepping back from the body.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

He belongs to a Hindu sect that reveres nature and follows strict vegetarianism.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

A Shiite cleric, he lives frugally and was brought up in a religious tradition that reveres martyrdom.

From Barron's Jan. 29, 2026

As somebody who has come up through the department, who reveres it, what do the two sides of that coin look like?

From Slate Nov. 24, 2025

The second question on this foolproof rubric is, “Does the shark movie have a necessary degree of camp that both reveres and respects that it is, indeed, a shark movie?”

From Salon Jun. 8, 2025

I'm the one soul in the world he truly reveres.

From Ewing\'s Lady by Harry Leon Wilson

Her great-grandfather, Ted Watkins, was a revered leader in Watts in the 1960s.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2026

Under a blazing sun, clad in black and clutching portraits of their slain leader Ali Khamenei, Iranian pilgrims streamed across the border into Iraq to observe the Arbaeen, the most revered event in Shia Islam.

From Barron's Aug. 1, 2026

More than two decades after Busby’s death in 2003, his seminal 1950s recordings have made him a cult hero, revered in hardcore bluegrass circles and beyond.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

It came in a rigid plastic triangle sealed with peel-and-stick film—a transparent reliquary for something nobody revered.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2026

I was in search of Brahman and revered the eternal in Atman.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

The film purports to show how socioeconomic inequality is a result of “the cultural pendulum swinging too far towards revering things we consider ‘masculine,’ like individualism, power, and money,” according to the nonprofit’s website.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

"This tells me about the whole community, this tells me about how they were thinking, how they were behaving, how they were revering the heavens."

From BBC Jun. 17, 2026

In the small West Texas town of Muleshoe, where two of college football’s foremost masterminds were made, Wes Wood grew up revering Lincoln Riley.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 8, 2023

The North’s main Rodong Sinmun newspaper said North Korea is revering Kim Il Sung as “eternal president” under the “outstanding leadership of comrade Kim Jong Un.”

From Seattle Times Apr. 14, 2022

They are unchanged, the servants of the Lord, revering the day’s gentle going.

From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by David Masson




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