salutatory

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Noun
  • At these exhibitions, Colton would start with a brief lecture explaining the gas and its scientific properties, then invite volunteers from the audience to try it for themselves.
    Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The lecture will feature tribal representatives Stan Rodriguez, Priscilla Ortiz and Andrew Pittman, along with Nan Renner, senior director of strategic partnerships at Birch Aquarium.
    La Jolla Light, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Poem 3 is playful: a mock-heroic eulogy for the sparrow, now dead, whom the poet blames for making his sweetheart’s eyes swollen and red—one of a very few references to Lesbia’s physical appearance.
    Daniel Mendelsohn, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Simpson gave a eulogy at the funeral service for President George H.W. Bush at the Washington National Cathedral in December 2018.
    Alistair Bell, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • John Amos‘ last acting role before his death in August 2024 was in the series premiere of Suits LA, and this Sunday, the NBC drama paid tribute to the late actor with a significant storyline.
    Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Forte remembers his friend and former roommate, who died April 1, in a new tribute.
    Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Buckley’s magazine, National Review, the flagship of the movement, published regular panegyrics to anti-communist generalissimos, heaping adoration on the likes of the Dominican Republic’s Rafael Trujillo, Portugal’s Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, and Spain’s Francisco Franco.
    Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2024
  • For example, Kenneth Khachigian, chief speechwriter for former President Ronald Reagan, wrote a panegyric about her for The Wall Street Journal, which went so far as to compare her to the Gipper.
    Robert Robb, CNN, 31 Oct. 2022
Noun
  • The summit kicked off with a keynote address from Rachel Kyte, the United Kingdom’s Special Envoy on Climate, and Ana Toni, the Chief Executive Officer of COP30—the next major United Nations climate summit, set for this November in Belém.
    Sanam Mahoozi, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Barber will deliver the keynote address at the annual King Day service at Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 19 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • One specific date must be the same for all the Muslim's roughly two-billion population: the Day of Arafah, when millions of pilgrims gather in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to commemorate the final sermon of Prophet Muhammad.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Leave it to Tom Rothman to tee up CinemaCon, ever the philosopher, with the ultimate sermon that waves the flag for moviegoing.
    Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2025
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“Salutatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salutatory. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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