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revere

[ri-veer] / rɪˈvɪər /


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Saylor is not an obvious candidate for jaded people to revere.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

"I still revere him very much," Xie Kaiyue, a 22-year-old local university student, said of Mao, who died almost three decades before she was born.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

As it happens, Hegseth wasn’t alone in offending the entire Western world, which he purports to revere.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026

Now Carlson is making his way back into the conversation by opposing the man he once claimed to revere.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

He promised to revere her as if she had been First Wife, his only wife.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

He belongs to a Hindu sect that reveres nature and follows strict vegetarianism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

A Shiite cleric, he lives frugally and was brought up in a religious tradition that reveres martyrdom.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

As somebody who has come up through the department, who reveres it, what do the two sides of that coin look like?

From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2025

Von Scherler Mayer reveres Mary’s youth and vitality while celebrating what would be the dying gasp of an era, telegraphing the ways of Mary’s life to even the most oblivious couch potato.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2025

And she crossed herself devoutly, for pious Brittany, as you know, reveres fairies as much as saints.

From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. Evans Wentz

The saint is revered by Brazil's Catholics but is not recognized as an object of worship by its growing evangelical population.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

It was an eye-catching conjecture: one of the most revered of the Founding Fathers subjecting people held against their will to possibly painful shocks.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

In Burma, the revered revolutionary figure Aung San warmed to Imperial Japan because it had helped create the Burma Independence Army.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Now comes nerve-jangling Korean director Na Hong-jin, long a revered force in genre cinema thanks to “The Yellow Sea” and “The Wailing,” with his own bid for immortality, the alien-monster tempest “Hope.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The most prominent and revered of them all were the Lares and Penates.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The film purports to show how socioeconomic inequality is a result of “the cultural pendulum swinging too far towards revering things we consider ‘masculine,’ like individualism, power, and money,” according to the nonprofit’s website.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

"This tells me about the whole community, this tells me about how they were thinking, how they were behaving, how they were revering the heavens."

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

Armstrong, who grew up revering Schulz, has a deep connection to Franklin.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

Some 600 adoring souls will scream their approval, revering the skill, the dedication, the opulence.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2023

You, a man who should have been Regius Professor at a great University with a thousand students all revering you.

From The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


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