reverence
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“He’s a guy that I have familiarity with, history and a lot of reverence for because of the gratitude from our experiences together.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
My donut dealer for the morning, Karla, places my Boldúmen in a box with a kind of reverence.
From Salon • Feb. 5, 2026
Contemporaries were convinced that his motivation for publishing Mansfield’s ephemera wasn’t so much reverence for her talent as greed for hard cash.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
But the Young 40 memes also represent Korean youth's growing scepticism of this almost forced reverence for elders.
From BBC • Jan. 17, 2026
I could see my father’s mouth pronouncing it with reverence, like he did for everything that had a touch of the old about it, the words from our language; like a prayer.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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