paean
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Other backward glances include “As You Lie There,” a fantasy about a teenage crush that never blossomed into a romance, and “Salesman Saint,” a paean to Mr. McCartney’s parents’ coping with life in postwar Liverpool.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
He insisted that he was an independent artist, proving the point by providing decadent, images for an edition of Thomas Malory’s paean to heroic chivalry, “Le Morte d’Arthur.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
The Oscars ceremony opens with a cinematic paean to Los Angeles, then Ariana Grande sings “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2025
Merchan then cited Chief Justice John Roberts’ recent paean to the sanctity of judicial independence.
From Slate • Jan. 3, 2025
As for “Kaiser Billy,” who had butted him as he rose up, and thus did the damage, he galloped off with a loud “baa” of triumph, as if shouting a paean of victory.
From Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)
Vocabulary lists containing paean
Antigone
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"The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Poe's Favorite Words, collected by Charles Harrington Elster
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