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glory

[glawr-ee] / ˈglɔr i /




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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

Ian decided to to live and to be a light and to be around people for the glory of the theater.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

In the original morning glory populations, the researchers estimated that adaptation was occurring at about 76% of the rate expected if covariance between traits were not taken into account.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 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

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

“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

Instead, what I heard too many of the candidates evoke was the glories of the past — their past.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2026

Many of the houses were unkempt and there were very few hydrangea bushes or morning glories on the front lawns.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

I also gloried in writing high school sports stories for 10 cents an inch.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 15, 2024

"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

In addition to academic pursuits, Richard began to write more popularly for the short-lived Opus, The New Republic and The Times, developing a reputation as America’s public musicologist, a role he gloried in.

From New York Times Jul. 3, 2022

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

He heard another woman laughing nearby, and knew that Bellatrix gloried in McGonagall’s despair.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

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

She said he "wasn't provided with the assistance he required" in the community, adding the way he "vacillates" when talking to police make it difficult to indicate "wilful glorying" over the death.

From BBC Oct. 1, 2021

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

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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