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Given the ease with which people can find misinformation and faulty pseudoscientific "evidence" that supports their initial bias against the COVID-19 vaccine, it's not surprising that a burgeoning community exists to elevate and adulate those who have championed not getting vaccinated as an expression of their "protected freedom."

Burstein is not here simply to commiserate or adulate, though the film necessarily serves measures of both.

Trump hates The Post, which he sees as reflecting too much criticism of his presidency — you know, “fake news” that does not adulate him.

There are many who adulate Musk and Bezos, and view them as our generation's heroes.

“I’m not that mad person who will eternally adulate him if he screws up or if it all goes wrong with his sons and they really are corrupt,” Cláudia said, in reference to suspicions of corruption swirling around Bolsonaro’s eldest son, the senator Flávio Bolsonaro.