as in to exalt
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Most of the sky will be collecting in the parts of your chart connected to important relationships and other people’s resources, and with Venus exalted in Pisces, love might reach you in the form of a care package or a helping hand.—
Steph Koyfman,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 Dec. 2024 -
While its fashion is increasingly more in tune with customers’ demand for clothing apt for outdoorsy experiences, the brand’s sustainability credentials and link with the sea are being exalted via lifestyle-leaning activations and communication initiatives.—
Martino Carrera,
WWD,
18 Jan. 2025
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In short, there are many that continue to dignify regional Mexican music.—
Tere Aguilera,
Billboard,
5 Feb. 2025
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The goal is to make the homes feel welcoming and dignifying for those who’ve gone without kind or, at the very least, livable home lives, Hindman added.—
Sierra Lopez,
The Mercury News,
3 Feb. 2025
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The youngest to accomplish something are often lionized, and impatience sets in if success is seen to take too long.—
Tania Ganguli,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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Trump's years-long Orwellian disinformation campaign justifying the riot as legitimate political expression and lionizing the perpetrators as heroes suffering from unjust persecution succeeded in muddying what should have been crystal-clear waters.—
Kevin Lynn,
Newsweek,
6 Jan. 2025
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While the civil rights leader has been glorified and canonized over the decades, DeShazier said King was a tough man who fought for his beliefs.—
Jeff Vorva,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Jan. 2025
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The funeral procession that climaxes Emilia Pérez is the damnedest, craziest thing since Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic minions draped kente cloth stoles over their shoulders and kneeled to canonize George Floyd at the Capitol.—
Armond White,
National Review,
29 Jan. 2025
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The Stonewall Inn at the heart of New York City’s Greenwich Village is prized as an origin of the contemporary LGBTQ rights movement and is internationally revered as a symbol of gay, lesbian and transgender resistance.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN,
13 Feb. 2025
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Known as Happy Valley Heaven, its name is seemingly derived from the surrounding neighborhood, Happy Valley, which is revered for its blend of high-end residences and semirural settings just 20-some miles east of San Francisco.—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
5 Feb. 2025
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Should reverence serve carelessness, even incoherence?—
Joy Williams,
Harper's Magazine,
2 May 2024
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Saint Heron remains dedicated to empowering future art practitioners by reverencing the spiritual act of creating and spotlighting artists’ unwavering devotion to the intergenerational language of expression.—
Dominique Fluker,
Essence,
16 June 2023
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Those ancestors are to be venerated and eternally respected, not used as shorthand for the disparagement of their descendants’ art, which often explicitly exalts their history.—
Kyle Denis,
Billboard,
11 Feb. 2025
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Men's Royal Rumble This year, the Men's Royal Rumble is filled with plenty of deserving talent, with exciting newcomers like Jacob Fatu and venerated veterans like Rey Mysterio.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Apotheosize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apotheosize. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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