as in worshiping
excessive admiration of or devotion to a person
the worship of professional athletes who often turn out to be all too fallible
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as in to venerate
to offer honor or respect to (someone) as a divine power
the ancient Greeks worshipped many different gods
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as in to love
to feel passion, devotion, or tenderness for
the new father worships his baby daughter, and would do anything for her
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as in to adore
to love or admire too much
thought that some of her fellow senior citizens worshipped the old days too much, observing that they weren't all good
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Recent Examples of worship
Literary Hub, 12 June 2025
Under the Trump administration, ICE has been granted greater authority, with restrictions lifted on conducting arrests in sensitive locations such as schools, health care facilities and places of worship.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025
Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 13 May 2025
Anthony Levandowski, the former head of Google’s self-driving-car division, for instance, founded an organization to worship artificial intelligence as a godhead.
—John Kaag, The Atlantic, 28 May 2025
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Noun
There are fewer opportunities now to meet people of different faiths and ethnicities and races now, when one of the only ways to find community is within a place of worship, i.e. a church.
—Literary Hub, 12 June 2025
Under the Trump administration, ICE has been granted greater authority, with restrictions lifted on conducting arrests in sensitive locations such as schools, health care facilities and places of worship.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025
Verb
They were required to work late hours, pray late into the evening and to wake up early to worship during church sermons that went on for hours, prosecutors wrote in the indictment.
—Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 13 May 2025
Anthony Levandowski, the former head of Google’s self-driving-car division, for instance, founded an organization to worship artificial intelligence as a godhead.
—John Kaag, The Atlantic, 28 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for worship
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Apollo, the god of archery and the son of Zeus, was venerated both in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
14 June 2025
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We are culturally deprived, and the attempt to venerate McDonald for her unedifying turmoil backfired.—
Armond White,
National Review,
13 June 2025
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The 30-year-old musician has notably shared her distaste for Noth’s character, Mr. Big, Carrie Bradshaw’s on-and-off again love interest through the series and films.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
7 June 2025
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Plan Your Trip Lexington, North Carolina 1 hour from Charlotte Lexington, North Carolina, has everything Southerners love: access to the outdoors, local shops, an independent bookstore, and a healthy appreciation of barbecue.—
Lydia Mansel,
Southern Living,
7 June 2025
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Those viral moments shifted her audience away from indie-loving Pitchfork dudes and toward a younger, more female crowd; her recent shows have been marked by throngs of adoring fangirls.—
Kristin Robinson,
Billboard,
5 June 2025
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This new effort is filled with the most memorable and moving canine moments Friedman has encountered in a life of adoring dogs.—
Kelli Bender,
People.com,
5 June 2025
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The adoration for the Italian characters grew as both filmmakers spent more and more time working with their mostly local crew on location.—
William Earl,
Variety,
6 June 2025
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Hannah Einbinder, Natasha Lyonne and Jessica Williams embrace nudity, mutual adoration and finally learning to stop chasing each other's careers.—
Lacey Rose,
HollywoodReporter,
5 June 2025
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But Pi is precociously enlightened, his innocence not a problem to be rectified but a quality to be reverenced.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2025
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But Trump also reverenced the tough job Emmer has in keeping the GOP majority together, with which Emmer is all too familiar after the chaotic last two years.—
Emily Brooks,
The Hill,
3 Feb. 2025
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So, having family and friends there, so many reasons to like it.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
17 June 2025
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And there are other reasons to be sanguine about the slide away from books, given what so many of us actually like to read.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
17 June 2025
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Emerging as the Druze leader of the opposition to the Syrian government is Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri, one of three holy men revered by Syrian Druze.—
Taylor Luck,
Christian Science Monitor,
11 June 2025
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Steve Jobs, the company’s late co-founder and Cook’s predecessor as CEO, established early on that the Apple brand was something to be revered and protected.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
11 June 2025
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His assessment is based not on the slack-jawed idolatry of elite-media toadies, but on sources nobody else thought to ring up and poke.—
Harpers Magazine,
Harpers Magazine,
26 Mar. 2025
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Unlike most contemporary acts subject to mass idolatry, Wolf Alice’s online presence (which, historically, has been minimal) has never been part of the appeal.—
Sophie Williams,
Billboard,
1 May 2025
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“Worship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worship. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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