paean
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The picture is both informative and worshipful, a paean to the wonders of God’s creation.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 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 band members impressively stepped into the stunningly gorgeous harmonies of “New Mama,” Young’s delicate and heartwarming paean written after the birth of his first son.
From Salon • Aug. 19, 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
It is evident that not even the most inspired genius can sustain such a flight for ever, and after this magnificent paean the workings of Beethoven's imagi140nation resemble those of Nature herself.
From Music: An Art and a Language by Spalding, Walter Raymond
Vocabulary lists containing paean
Antigone
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"The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe
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