glory
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Rather than chasing the glory of a debut goal, he prioritised the better option for the team.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Worse than these attempts at stolen glory, perhaps, is the spectacle of how contemporaries revised their opinions of Wilde to suit prevailing fashions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The crowning glory of the collection is arguably the first-ever Flash Gordon comic strip.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Unlike Ronaldo in 2014 or Luka Modric in 2018, he cannot point to Champions League glory as Bayern Munich's European campaign ended in the semi-finals against eventual winners Paris St-Germain.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
“Jefferson ran away with the stage effect,” Adams lamented, “and all the glory of it.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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The team studied morning glories as part of a broader effort to understand how human-caused global change is shaping evolution.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Sometimes they featured celebrities recounting past glories or promoting their newest releases.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
“Lonely in the Future,” which in part explains why the Strokes have no wish to replicate past glories, is the most direct song on the record.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
He also won over Liverpool's biggest names who had under-pinned the Klopp glories of winning the Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup and two League Cups.
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
Thick around a tall trellis, a vine that had been simply green when he arrived the day before was now profuse with opened blue and white morning glories.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
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The then-deputy L.A. police chief and future chief James Davis — who gloried in the nickname “Two-Gun Davis” — recommended markswoman Marion Semmelmeyer as the crack shot for a newsreel scene in 1933.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
"I think the critics are looking backwards to a gloried past, and fail to see the strategic picture vis a vis China and technology in a really disappointing way," he says.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2023
For years, that has brought an impressive reward: The Premier League has gloried in its financial potency.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2021
As D.C. suffered and then gloried in a few winning teams, Tom spoke for the fans, always.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2021
She gloried in the off-beat dryness of Michelle Obama’s humor, the confidence in her long-limbed carriage, and then she mourned when Michelle Obama was clamped, flattened, made to sound tepidly wholesome in interviews.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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It is doing so with an exclamation point, glorying in the repertory system enabled by its enormous budget and backstage forces, by which it can, astonishingly, present four titles in a single weekend.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2022
So on Monday, when he should have been glorying in his victory, he apologised again.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 3, 2020
Ed. note: I will be on vacation next week, glorying in the delights of the 35th state so we will have to leave the mailbag aside for a while.
From Fox News ● Jul. 26, 2019
I had waltzed through the Gare du Nord, having persuaded myself to be imprudent, glorying in my encounter with the Other, and while I was so glorying, the Other had taken my phone.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2015
Theresa gave an encore; the family leaned over the rail like operagoers, glorying in the sound.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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