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Similarly, we both embrace holy tradition, including the Bible, the church fathers and the seven ancient ecumenical councils, and we venerate the cross, Mary, saints, icons and holy relics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Netflix and other streamers have already split the film industry down the middle, separating those who venerate the art form from those who venerate the dollar, leaving many Hollywood titans flailing somewhere in the middle.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

What "Christians still venerate today, in 2026, in the relics of a saint is the presence of the Holy Spirit," he said.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

These mob-like depictions occurred long before cult-favorite films like Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 “The Godfather” and Brian De Palma 1983’s “Scarface” became the prominent gangster storylines various male acts venerate in their music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026

As the years went by, we started to venerate that dog proper, like the saint she is.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

Golf is a conformist sport that venerates style independence, from swashbuckling Chi-Chi Rodriguez to Payne Stewart to peak Arnold Palmer ripping a heater on the back nine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

“A culture that venerates Cory from ‘Boy Meets World,’ or Zach & Slater over Screech in ‘Saved by the Bell,’ or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in ‘Family Matters,’ will not produce the best engineers.”

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2024

Rinaldi said that while the art world venerates male artists — Warhol, Dalí, Picasso — who make their way into popular culture, it can judge women harshly.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2024

Boy Gru venerates these villains and wants to join them.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2022

For one learns sooner, and more willingly remembers, that which a man derides, than that which he approves and venerates.

From The Works of Horace by Horace

The clause survives as decoration: incorporated, venerated, and incapable of stopping a single seizure.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

The Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, an 11th-century monastery with emblematic golden domes, is venerated by both the Russian and Ukrainian wings of the Orthodox Church as one of their most important spiritual centres.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

It is unusual to see Buddhist monks - much less such a high-ranking figure - arrested in Sri Lanka, where they are both politically powerful and venerated by society.

From BBC ● May 9, 2026

It doesn’t hurt that she’s attired in a series of extremely flattering outfits by the venerated costume designer Travis Banton.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

Many years before, a holy man had lived there, meditating and fasting and praying, and the place was venerated for the sake of his memory.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

The U.S.-influenced counterculture of the 1960s inverted the social order, venerating indigenous folkways and fueling aspirations for full independence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 24, 2026

At the Butovo firing range, a Stalin-era execution site near Moscow that has become a shrine to his victims, visiting Russians warned against venerating the wartime leader or emulating his ideas.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2025

The themes of performances at Mr Gopalakrishnan's house include honouring a deified ancestor, venerating a warrior-hunter deity, and worshipping tiger spirits symbolising strength and protection.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024

They interfered with rituals for venerating ancestors, and families were sometimes split when some members became Christians and others did not.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

There was a village in the north of France where peasants were venerating a dog as a saint.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz