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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adulate.

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Examples

  • The people our media adulates, and thus the folks many of us look up to, are people with complex deals in the offing, complex living arrangements, complicated travel schedules, complicated contracts and options and complex choices to make.

    Arthur Rosenfeld: The Simple Life Arthur Rosenfeld 2012

  • The people our media adulates, and thus the folks many of us look up to, are people with complex deals in the offing, complex living arrangements, complicated travel schedules, complicated contracts and options and complex choices to make.

    Arthur Rosenfeld: The Simple Life Arthur Rosenfeld 2012

  • The people our media adulates, and thus the folks many of us look up to, are people with complex deals in the offing, complex living arrangements, complicated travel schedules, complicated contracts and options and complex choices to make.

    Arthur Rosenfeld: The Simple Life Arthur Rosenfeld 2012

  • The people our media adulates, and thus the folks many of us look up to, are people with complex deals in the offing, complex living arrangements, complicated travel schedules, complicated contracts and options and complex choices to make.

    Arthur Rosenfeld: The Simple Life Arthur Rosenfeld 2012

  • And of course, if he was right, the particular “designer” he adulates would be one that deliberately inflicts humans - including many small children - with malaria.

    No metazoan is an island - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • The written – or, more frequently, the printed word – adulates the ‘democratic’ ‘progressive’ ‘modern’ ‘forward-looking’ man, woman, or nation.

    THE QUEENSBERRY RULES OF DISCOURSE 2009

  • His friend, white and well read with no ambition, adulates him.

    Colours Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

  • His friend, white and well read with no ambition, adulates him.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2008

  • And to think that the nineteenth century takes on airs and adulates itself.

    Là-bas Keene [Translator] Wallace 1877

  • Italian princes, extols the House of France and adulates Marie de

    Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866

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