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glorify

[glawr-uh-fahy, glohr-] / ˈglɔr əˌfaɪ, ˈgloʊr- /




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The goal is to get people to think, not to mock or glorify violence in any way, the Secret Handshake rep said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

“The campaign to glorify him,” wrote one biographer in 1988, “has surpassed fanatic religious fervor. The North Korean ‘sun of the nation’ shines both day and night, and it is hard to escape his ubiquity.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Mussolini constructed the Arch of the Philaeni to glorify fascist Italy’s colonial projects in North Africa.

From Salon • Nov. 5, 2025

TV shows and social media can glorify the idea of student life.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2025

Don’t they all glorify God as much as ‘Paul’ and ‘Peter’ and ‘Simon’?” Aunty Ifeoma was getting annoyed; I knew by her raised voice, by her snappy tone.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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