- present tense form of adore (3rd person singular).
adores
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The 54-year-old fisherman from a small village in Polewali Mandar, West Sulawesi, has been a superfan of the Argentine football team since the 1980s and adores superstar Lionel Messi.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
The kid’s joy is as stratospheric as the plane; he adores everything but the airline’s chicken cordon bleu.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
If the best way to hit it big is to make a podcast that someone like Altman adores, then the rest of us are probably in trouble.
From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2026
Mr. Jacobs also adores the look of the taxi dancers—“broken dolls,” he calls them—in Bob Fosse’s movie “Sweet Charity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
It's what my own mother always does when she wants me to know—really know—that she adores me.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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