paean

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The postwar period is rife with big names who used brands as both a pastiche of and paean to America’s consumer culture: Richard Prince, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, Eduardo Paolozzi and—king of them all—Andy Warhol.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

But as admiring as “Cover-Up” may be about Seymour Hersh, it is hardly a paean to American mass media.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

Apart from being a paean to Twitter’s better day, it’s notable that this success is, also, about words.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2025

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

From Slate • Jan. 3, 2025

The conversation was a prolonged paean to the host, with choral strophe and antistrophe.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various