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revere

[ri-veer] / rɪˈvɪər /


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Aegon’s descendants revere the Conqueror so highly that he has numerous prominent namesakes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Saylor is not an obvious candidate for jaded people to revere.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

As it happens, Hegseth wasn’t alone in offending the entire Western world, which he purports to revere.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 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

“He often infuriates me, but he’s old. I’ve been taught to revere and obey such people. It’s just...built in.”

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

Fred dreams of beating his annual sales goal and earning a trip to Palm Springs, Calif., a place he reveres “the way others may have felt about Canterbury or Jerusalem or Mecca.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

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

Von Scherler Mayer reveres Mary’s youth and vitality while celebrating what would be the dying gasp of an era, telegraphing the ways of Mary’s life to even the most oblivious couch potato.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2025

She reveres in you the Pontiff; but she will not stop in her progress for the Prince.

From Pius IX. And His Time by Æneas MacDonell Dawson

Mercury contamination, toxic algal blooms and invasive fishes have threatened a rare and revered local fish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

It was an eye-catching conjecture: one of the most revered of the Founding Fathers subjecting people held against their will to possibly painful shocks.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

In Burma, the revered revolutionary figure Aung San warmed to Imperial Japan because it had helped create the Burma Independence Army.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Our creativity and innovation, how we made music and movies and clothes and vaccines and lifesaving drugs and consumer goods revered the world over.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

What mattered to Mozart was that his music should be enjoyed, not that he should be worshipped or revered, and it is this quality of treasured delight that captures his age.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

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

Duterte’s supporters began revering Ronald dela Rosa, his shaven-headed chief of the National Police, who took on a rock star image and had women screaming in adoration in the streets.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2021

For you the Cyrenaic shell Behold I touch revering.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer




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