relish
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Then, she says with special relish, there’s Orge, pronounced or-gay.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
Farmers grow passion fruit, pomegranates and tangerines, and islanders relish a fiery shochu liquor made with brown sugar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Badenoch has recently accused Burnham of being a "people pleaser" who doesn't relish taking difficult decisions, a characterisation she is likely to use again in her Commons clashes with him.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
If you relish reading a critic pan a bad movie, then you’ll love Laura Miller’s scathing review of The Whisper Man, a ridiculous new thriller starring Robert De Niro and Michael Keaton.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
But if Kissinger did not exactly relish the president’s company, he did come to admire Nixon’s intelligence, and his willingness to make bold moves.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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She relishes the tedious sausage-making of statecraft, the kind of stuff that makes you and me bleed from our ears.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
“Bucking Fastard” relishes those contradictions, supposing that there might be some version of life where they can coexist in harmony.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
At 93, the "Downtown" legend still relishes the connection between audience and performer, and the humanity in delivering a vocal -- two things AI songs might eliminate.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Won notes business relationships can take months or even years to bear fruit, so he relishes the immediate results of an hour on his riding mower.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Lourdes relishes winter most of all—the cold scraping sounds on sidewalks and windshields, the ritual of scarves and gloves, hats and zip-in coat linings.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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They are to be relished if not comprehended.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Redick, entering his third season as a head coach, relished the buy-in and interest from the young team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
There is European football back at Brighton this season in the Conference League, and that will put added workload on Fabian Hurzeler's squad - but it will be relished at this well-run club.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
And Neill relished that ability, returning time and again to characters whose unpredictability mirrored life’s, creating an oeuvre that is both grotesque and supremely human.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
It was not a proposal that came as a surprise to me, nor was it one I particularly relished, but it was something I knew I had to do.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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Hull, in contrast, will be relishing this after the start they have made.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Seven-year-old Aydin is relishing the chance to play somewhere new.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
As the picture rolls along, Garcia shows a more assertive side, relishing her character’s emergence from her shell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Conductors love to play “Pulcinella” for goofy laughs, exaggerating trombone glissandi and the like, relishing guffaws from the audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
What comes across in their work time and again is a relishing of the joys of chords for their own sake, the delicious transition from one to another and the effect it might have.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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