admiring
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The singer said he was in a Miami hotel while writing the song, strumming his guitar and admiring the coastal view.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
"I'm so admiring of his strength of character and the zen-like state he's been in since the very beginning of the match," said former British number one Annabel Croft.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
The very thing that made their creative work possible – a large, mostly admiring audience – was also its biggest threat.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
Mr. Ackroyd is admiring of Auden’s poetic accomplishment, from his recondite early work to the later, more conversational and religiously inspired verses that some critics have disliked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
For many years, admiring biographers and historians either ignored or hid the relationships of these presidents to their slaves.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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