as in praising
to proclaim the glory of
campaign literature extolling the candidate's military record
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Recent Examples of extolling
The goal of extolling the Six Triple Eight’s virtues renders the film’s narrative an incidental element.
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Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
No one is winking or making fun, despite the fact that this father and son are extolling the beauty of the morning while inside a sunless bunker six miles underground.
—Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
Elon Musk has long been a gamer, previously extolling the virtues of Cyberpunk 2077, a game in which the mother of some of his children, Grimes, appears.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
Posters and slogans extolling the virtue of teamwork were everywhere, even in the company restrooms.
—Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Eggers wrote them in the Washington Post in a wildly interesting piece extolling the virtues of Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and NASA more broadly.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
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“Extolling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extolling. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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