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- noun Plural form of
hagiographer .
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Examples
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Rich actually used the word "hagiographers" to describe some of the pro-Obama media coverage, referring to "report cards" issued by Halperin that were subject to some serious grade inflation:
TimesWatch Headlines 2009
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Since 1997, Stiglitz-Sachs have been Zenawi's unofficial hagiographers (biographers of saints).
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Lessons From Columbia U. Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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For a correct interpretation of Scripture we must, then, carefully examine what the hagiographers really sought to say and what God was pleased to reveal with their words .
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Since 1997, Stiglitz-Sachs have been Zenawi's unofficial hagiographers (biographers of saints).
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Lessons From Columbia U. Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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I disagree with Bill Morris in his essay when he says, Beware of the hagiographers who tell you a writer's life is more important than the books he or she wrote.
Joe Woodward: Hagiography -- Writing the Lives of the Saints Joe Woodward 2010
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I disagree with Bill Morris in his essay when he says, Beware of the hagiographers who tell you a writer's life is more important than the books he or she wrote.
Joe Woodward: Hagiography -- Writing the Lives of the Saints Joe Woodward 2010
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Snyder then, as his hagiographers always insist, went out with a feral tenacity and just “refused to fail.”
Bad Sports Dave Zirin 2010
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Morris finishes his piece with Beware of hagiographers who tell you a writer's life is more important than the books he or she wrote.
Joe Woodward: Hagiography -- Writing the Lives of the Saints Joe Woodward 2010
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Snyder then, as his hagiographers always insist, went out with a feral tenacity and just “refused to fail.”
Bad Sports Dave Zirin 2010
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Morris finishes his piece with Beware of hagiographers who tell you a writer's life is more important than the books he or she wrote.
Joe Woodward: Hagiography -- Writing the Lives of the Saints Joe Woodward 2010
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