venerable
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“In retrospect, the presence and credibility of such venerable people in different orbits led me to make assumptions about him that clouded my judgment in ways it shouldn’t have.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
After college, she moved to Los Angeles, performing as a rock singer and studying at the venerable Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.
From Barron's • Mar. 15, 2026
The venerable Warren Buffett offered this simple maxim in a letter to Berkshire Hathaway investors in 1986:
From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026
He was a commentator for the Lakers alongside the venerable Chick Hearn, doing what was then a simulcast of radio and television.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2026
That night Finny began to talk abstractedly about it, as though it were a venerable, entrenched institution of the Devon School.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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