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paean

[pee-uhn] / ˈpi ən /


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Emerging bluesman Sammie plays a song he wrote as a confession to his pastor father, a paean to the music he loves.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 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

And during Ms. Kealani’s closing paean to Charles X, once again sensitively accompanied by the solo harp, the Gérard picture slowly assembled, with the painting itself finally projected onto the singers and Paulo Fantin’s set.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 1, 2025

Merchan then cited Chief Justice John Roberts’ recent paean to the sanctity of judicial independence.

From Slate • Jan. 3, 2025

Through the mind of the young girl ran a ceaseless paean of thanksgiving for her timely deliverance from the trammels which she so well knew enshackled these glittering birds of paradise.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis




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