glory
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Howe, 48, helped the Magpies end their 56-year wait for a trophy when he led them to League Cup glory in 2025 and secured two Champions League qualifications in his five years in charge.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
Amid all the turmoil of 2026, some may yearn to dial the culture back to 2016 — in all its rainbow-saturated, Rio de Janeiro Instagram-filtered glory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Then there is Pella’s vicarious bond with Irma Friske, a brilliant—and younger—scholarship student destined for academic glory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
In the scratch race, Matthew Bostock made his move for glory at the halfway point and held on to the lead to take his first world title in Shanghai, China.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
I slide out a black metal case and crack it open, revealing, in all its glory, my silver forty-five caliber Ruger LCP pistol.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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Their dreams of future glories, long-term plans and policies, and gold medals on UK soil could point ahead to many years time.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
In morning glories, researchers found that the population's rate of adaptation fell by 96% over nine years.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Sometimes they featured celebrities recounting past glories or promoting their newest releases.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
From her earliest years, Emily thrilled to the austere glories of the landscape, with its great desolate stretches of rocky turf and rushing waterways all shaped and pummeled by winds that whistled and “wuthered.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
They stood at the breakfast table and recounted the glories and strengths of each family member.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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"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
I had taken off my head covering because of the heat and then stood in the open and gloried in the cool rain as it beaded on my head.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022
A 1964 Covina estate, where some descendants of the founder of the Singer sewing machine company liked to summer, gloried in a koi pond, an aviary and a 10-bed bomb shelter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2022
But Gielen gloried in the critical discomfort, in defying the expectations of a culture industry he thought had its priorities all wrong.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
I think they gloried in my squalor as proof of my baseness.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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As shooting began in fall 2016, the show was imagined as a portrait of a woman in power, which would open with a scene of Diane glorying in the inauguration of Hillary Clinton.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2022
"He was glorying in what he had done," Mr Aspden added.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2021
A video from Atlanta, in 2016, shows her glorying in one of her signature encores, “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 3, 2019
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 spent the next few days glorying in my new friendships—with them, and with the water.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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