cherished
Example Sentences
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“Jeremy was a cherished member of our team and a true champion for Downtown Santa Monica,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
This planning includes the money you’re leaving to your cherished charitable causes: The more assets you can leave to beneficiaries as transfer-on-death or payable-on-death, the more of your estate will bypass probate.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026
Against the conventional wisdom that civil rights were fundamentally different from political rights, Black Americans insisted that both were vital to make real America’s most cherished constitutional ideals.
From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026
A cherished moment for the pair came as a result of another long-standing tradition, where previous champions are allowed to invite a guest for 18 holes.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
That just as the theories of Ptolemy and Newton seemed perfectly satisfactory for centuries, so too our most cherished theories will one day be supplanted.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
