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She extolled passage of the law as a victory for all Americans.extolled = praised
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... people who were extolling his various virtues now that he was dead, even though I knew for a fact they hadn't seen him in months and had made no effort to visit him. (source)extolling = praising, glorifying, or honoring
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An announcer's voice came on, extolled Ginsu knives, gave an 800 number, and informed those Colorado watchers who had simply been panting for a good set of Ginsu knives that Operators Were Standing By. (source)extolled = praised and glorified
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conversations ... extolling the virtues of Martin Luther King over Malcolm X and vice versa, (source)extolling = praising
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Extolling its many virtues, the salesman noted that this was El Jefe's favorite car. (source)
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When she was growing up, some of her friends had extolled the joys of camping, but she'd thought they were deranged. (source)extolled = highly praised
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The Parisian police, so much extolled for acumen, are cunning, but no more. (source)extolled = praised
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"We of the younger generation extol the wisdom of that great leader and educator," I shouted, (source)extol = praise, glorify, or honor
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To this day, the troubadours sang songs extolling the virtues of "our Lady"—a mysterious and beautiful woman to whom they pledged themselves forever.† (source)extolling = praising, glorifying, or honoring
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In an essay called "Ulysses, Order, and Myth (1923)," Eliot extols the virtues of Joyce's newly published masterpiece, and proclaims that, whereas writers of previous generations relied on the "narrative method," modern writers can, following Joyce's example, employ the "mythic method."† (source)
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Nor Greece in vain shall hear thy friend extoll'd; Receive a talent of the purest gold.† (source)
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Extoller of amies and those that sleep in each others' arms. (source)extoller = someone who expresses high praise to others
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But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article, and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.† (source)
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The defiant character it assumed when Fanny heard these extollings (as it generally happened that she did), was not expressive of concessions to the impartial bosom; but the utmost revenge the bosom took was, to say audibly, 'A spoilt beauty—but with that face and shape, who could wonder?'† (source)
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Then would he be there to tell that honourable gentleman that the Circumlocution Office not only was blameless in this matter, but was commendable in this matter, was extollable to the skies in this matter.† (source)extollable = praiseworthystandard suffix: The suffix "-able" in extollable means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable. Note that when "-able" is placed at the end of a word that ends in a consonant, the consonant is sometimes repeated as in forgettable and winnable.
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But the incessant close labour demanded of these children caused them to go blind by the age of eight or nine, and their blindness was the measure by which the carpet-sellers valued and extolled their merchandise: This carpet blinded ten children, they would say.† (source)extolled = praised, glorified, or honored
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