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exalt

[ig-zawlt] / ɪgˈzɔlt /


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So to be holding that space and then to also be in this creator space that people respect and exalt in some sort of way is crazy to me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025

Perhaps if we exalt good lighting for watching media in our homes, word will get back to Hollywood.

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025

“Anzac Day has never asked us to exalt in the glories of war. Anzac Day asks us to stand against the erosion of time and to hold on to their names,” Albanese added.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2024

Francis “certainly didn’t want to exalt imperialistic logic or government personalities, who were cited to indicate certain historic periods of reference,” Bruni said in a statement.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 29, 2023

In a curious way, many people simultaneously exalt and dismiss mathematicians and scientists as impractical whizzes.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Mr. Stephens comments in a way that exalts the passage’s author: “Given this statement, it seems implausible that . . . Marcus bowed to trumpery.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

Southern Company exalts Plant Vogtle as a key clean energy asset.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2023

But that's the kind of thing that our culture exalts these days.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2023

Elvis doesn’t really do speeches, but when he sings, it exalts us all.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2022

Now a propitious destiny exalts the Changeful far above thee.

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle

Before Nazi Germany revoked her civic belonging, universities offered Arendt a more exalted citizenship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Hospitals, he observes, “have exalted missions, which can obscure the fact that they’re just as full of territorial jerks as investment banks.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

In that, he is in exalted company - Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher are the others.

From BBC ● May 3, 2026

I guess what I’m getting at is: It didn’t feel exalted, but I felt purpose and that it was OK to have some responsibility — like a pastor with a congregation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026

The reproachful face faded from his mind, and his tension vanished, driven out by the exalted sense of heroism with which his own words had filled him.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

“I can’t describe how beautiful, calm, sacred, exciting, and exalting it was. It was just a dream,” she told the outlet.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025

She was an artful, innovative interpreter of other people’s songs, in the vein of Frank Sinatra, in an era when audiences—and especially critics—were exalting the singer-songwriter model instead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

At the same time, they're exalting a completely fictitious and unrealistic fantasy of a "golden age."

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2025

In famous Sistema fashion, they moved as a single organism, exalting in their oneness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024

The music stopped and the guests gathered in the main hall where a small, innocent priest, adorned with the vestments of high mass, read the complicated sermon he had written exalting confused and impracticable virtues.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende


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