as in venerable
deserving honor and respect especially by reason of age
a professor who is highly revered at the college where she has taught for the last four decades
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as in venerated
to offer honor or respect to (someone) as a divine power
in some cultures people revere their ancestors, even leaving food offerings for them
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Recent Examples of revered
Douglas Markowitz, Miami Herald, 19 Dec. 2025
By the time the 21st century came around, Ely was a revered songwriter, recording artist, and performer who’d become associated with his generation of Texas songwriter legends like Keen, Guy Clark, and Terry Allen.
—Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2025
Diane Brady, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2026
But Gabriel’s work in Genesis is still revered by prog aficionados all across the planet.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2026
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As a revered cultural institution in Liberty City celebrates its 50th anniversary, one Miami artist is taking the opportunity to reflect on its impact.
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Our conversation reminded me why GE was revered for much of its 133-year history.
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Roughly one hundred Uffizi staffers staged a demonstration in the courtyard of the venerable Florence institution on January 4, protesting an effective layoff of the museum’s casual workers spurred by a change in service managers.—
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Lorch died in 2012, but his actions, and how much, if any, responsibility the venerable institution should take for them, will be at issue in the case.—
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Yoji shared that venerated director Akira Kurosawa always said that the camera should never be on stage when shooting a kabuki performance, nor move around to get close to the actors.—
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This is something new in the techno-sphere that for the longest time elevated and venerated the founder/CEO as superstar.—
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And Fisher, then one of the more respected economists in the nation, decided to make a bold prediction that would prove to have comically bad timing.—
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The Kentucky native was a highly respected immunologist for local companies Abbott and Baxter and one of the few Black women to be awarded a patent in the sciences.—
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Irish, Italian, German, and Polish communities each worshipped—in Latin—at their own churches, often within blocks of one another.—
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As their youngest uncle, Turner’s nieces and nephews worshiped him.—
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“Revered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/revered. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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