glory
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Dave’s Hot Chicken has adopted a similar premise for its spicier entry into the market, but for many Caniacs, nothing beats the stripped-down glory of the original.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
But Ricky Bobby’s return to glory was about more than the importance of humility and friendship.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Britain's Amy Hunt charged to 200m glory to secure her second gold medal of the European Championships as Dina Asher-Smith settled for bronze in Birmingham.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
"The life of comrade Zhu Rongji was a life of revolution, a life of struggle, a life of glory," an obituary jointly issued by China's top political bodies said, according to Xinhua.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Desperate to return to the sunset in all its glory, I clawed through the plants, up to the waist now in muck.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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Sometimes they featured celebrities recounting past glories or promoting their newest releases.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 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
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
Dick’s aim is to capture the glories of the region on canvas, but he also falls for Doris Owen, his host’s daughter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
But to be perfectly frank, Stevens, I wasn't paying much attention to the glories of nature.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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More accurately, she added, he was “a quintessential” man of the Renaissance, which gloried in the revival of not only art and literature but also science and explorations of nature.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 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
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
I gloried in the recklessness it took to reach that velocity.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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"He was glorying in what he had done," Mr Aspden added.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2021
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
She ventures into the realm of unembarrassed feeling, letting her voice curl upward to the limit of her register, glorying in the sound and the momentum of her words as much as in their meaning.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 15, 2015
He worked for 13 years at The Herald Tribune as feature writer, drama editor and movie critic, glorying in Broadway opening nights and junkets to Hollywood.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2015
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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