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- noun Plural form of
paeon .
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Examples
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The vast majority of Democrats – people like Barack Obama and Joe Biden – were writing paeons to the filibuster back then.
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I have read the paeons to the wonders of computers in classrooms, but I don't see them doing much in the urban schools I care about.
Technology may help poor schools by starting with rich ones 2010
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Both symbols figure prominently in the pages of the Bible, which borrowed much imagery and prayers/paeons from the Egyptians.
Helen of Troy Jan 2009
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Felix Dennis, the piratical publishing tycoon, is one of Britain's richest men with a fortune of £750m; Dennis, 61, a published poet, is serious and passionate about writing, not to mention touring and performing for audiences incapable of resisting the free-flowing booze that comes attached to participating in the liquor laureate's paeons to his muse.
Peter Ross Toasts Britains's Liquor Laureate Judith Fitzgerald 2008
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It took some slogging through the paeons of unconsidered praise, but I finally found your excellent analysis.
Truth versus hype in the Jupiter study | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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In twenty years, the only playable versions of these games will be the cracked ones, which guarantees immortality to the craxors who insert splash-screens with paeons to their psuedonymous technical studliness, and obscurity for the companies that actually wrote the games.
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Repeated viewings of this ride likely account for my gadget obsession, as GE's paeons to the wonders of technology were burned right into my brain.
Boing Boing: October 28, 2001 - November 3, 2001 Archives 2001
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For a truly vapid and incomprehensible yet edifyingly elitist waste of time, do read His Grace's fine paeons to the terminally passionless and intellectually banal.
Hullabaloo 2003
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Songs of redemption bursting forth in great paeons of praise.
The Fifth Rapunzel Gill, B. M. 1991
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| [35] Apparent paeons occur now and then, where the usual |
The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum
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