as in praised
to proclaim the glory of
campaign literature extolling the candidate's military record
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Recent Examples of extolled
Kennedy has previously criticized seed oils and extolled tallow, at odds with long-standing recommendations.
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Kerry Breen, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who extolled the power of the presidency, died Monday at the age of 84, his family said in a statement.
—Don Gonyea, NPR, 4 Nov. 2025
Certain ideas get passed around duck camps, shared on duck hunting forums, and finally extolled on hunting social media.
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
Newspaper critics from across the United States generally extolled the adaptation.
—Marlene L. Daut
september 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
Ultimately, prediction markets represent paradise for free market purists who have long extolled the merits of light-touch management of the global economy.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
Though Fiddelke, 49, extolled the value of knowing Target deeply, shares fell 10% in morning trading on the news of his appointment.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025
One complained that the game doesn't explain itself, but then in the same video extolled the virtues of Minecraft—a game that explains itself even less.
—ArsTechnica, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for extolled
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Special teams coordinator Tracy Smith has also routinely praised Scott’s willingness to do whatever is asked of him.—
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Officials praised the responders and said many of them received specialized water rescue training thanks to a federal grant.—
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The project will be the next phase of the Miami Museum of Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora (MoCAAD), a virtual museum that celebrated its 10th anniversary in December at a gala at the Lyric Theater.—
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This past October, Parker celebrated her son James Wilkie's 23rd birthday with a video on Instagram.—
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Twenty years of hard work and persistence, blessed by occasional moments when chance had generously smiled on him.—
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In one of the most deal-ridden and far too often contrived places on the globe, Steny was straightforward, smart, wise, direct, honest on the real odds about anything and everything, and blessed with a sense of humor that, if saintly in purpose, was devilishly clever in delivery.—
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“Extolled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extolled. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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