as in to exalt
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Venus is said to exalt in Pisces, per traditional astrology.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
31 Jan. 2025 -
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
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But party leaders are urging rank-and-file lawmakers to keep any protests dignified and to avoid bringing signs or props.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
4 Mar. 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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Long before RuPaul lionized drag queens in mainstream culture, this gender-bending, all-male ballet troupe was representing in the dance world — one fouetté (and false eyelash) at a time.—
Karu F. Daniels,
New York Daily News,
2 Jan. 2025
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There are so many people out there obsessed with what's happening, obsessed with him, lionize him.—
Katie Drummond,
WIRED,
13 Feb. 2025
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It’s been sort of a slow burn itself, the way it’s been canonized, and for example, just now getting a Criterion release.—
Rachel Handler,
Vulture,
14 Feb. 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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Hackman's decades-spanning career in the film industry was one revered by his peers and critics alike.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
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As a boy in India in the 1970s, the writer grew up in a Hindu-nationalist family that revered Jews, despite not knowing any.—
Franklin Foer,
The Atlantic,
26 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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Also, a subculture referred to as Saints Culture, which venerates mass killers as almost superhuman figures, frames high-casualty attacks as the ultimate and only legacy worth emulating.—
Odette Yousef,
NPR,
8 Mar. 2025
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Aquinas adds – and to me this is one of the most beautiful aspects of his reflections on relics – that venerating a relic is also a way of looking forward to the future resurrection of the body.—
Therese Cory,
The Conversation,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Apotheosize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apotheosize. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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