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revere

[ri-veer] / rɪˈvɪər /


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The institutions many of us were raised to revere were failing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

But many Serbs continued to revere a military commander who painted himself as a "simple man" whom fate had chosen to protect his people.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026

If we must worship a power greater than ourselves, does it not make sense to revere the Sun and stars?

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

His wife, whom Mr. Murray plainly reveres, is a Quaker who doesn’t care all that much about the factual questions that bother him in this book.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 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

Remember, there will be always one who trusts you, one who reveres you, loves you!

From The Queen Against Owen by Allen Upward

The joke did not go down well in China, where Mao is revered by the Communist Party, despite his having overseen one of the bloodiest chapters in the country's past.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Mao remains officially revered as the hero of the communist revolution and founder of the People's Republic of China.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

Among silver-screen romances, the Blake Lively-led odyssey across time, “The Age of Adaline,” isn’t exactly the most revered.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

Ms. Weingarten’s predecessor Albert Shanker, the most revered and powerful teachers-union leader in history, eventually came to appreciate the problem but couldn’t get his own union to change course.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

In much the same way, the ancient Greeks revered their athletes and made statues of them in marble.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl

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

Some 600 adoring souls will scream their approval, revering the skill, the dedication, the opulence.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 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

The passing of the visible presence of a parent little lessened and often greatened the revering love of the Jewish child.

From Child Versus Parent Some Chapters on the Irrepressible Conflict in the Home by Stephen Wise


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