revere

Example Sentences

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Iran has about 90 million people, many of whom despise the regime, many of whom revere it.

From Slate • Mar. 2, 2026

I feel about Scotland the way many Europeans feel about America: I love its people, revere its history, relish its architecture and topography and regard its present-day politics with sadness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

Though Bhumibol's son inherited the throne about nine years ago, many still revere him as the nation's most steadfast figurehead -- and Sirikit as his constant companion.

From Barron's • Oct. 26, 2025

Without anything divine to revere, American home and landscape design largely genuflects at the altar of the market.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2025

The one scientist they did revere, if begrudgingly, was Linus Pauling—the larger-than-life Caltech chemist who had recently announced that he had solved an important conundrum in the structure of proteins.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee