glorified
Example Sentences
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Such is their quality, the second-wicket pair turned the remainder of the chase into little more than a glorified net.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
In the meantime, her own Los Angeles abode became more of a glorified closet than a true home.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Hiding away in a glorified ice chest would also have been a blow to the 80-year-old’s dignity.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
In fact, Pochettino should treat that game like a glorified scrimmage, a rare chance in the middle of a tournament to experiment and hammer home finer points of strategy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
The nucleic acid in a chromosome, as one biochemist put it, was merely the “structure-determining, supporting substance”—a glorified molecular scaffold for genes.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
