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cherished

  • past participle
    of cherish.
    cherish
    verb (used with object)
    to hold or treat as dear; feel love for.
  • past tense form
    of cherish.
    cherish
    verb (used with object)
    to hold or treat as dear; feel love for.

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For U.S. workers, Social Security is a cherished benefit.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

A place that had a distinctive and cherished identity before the fire, mixed race and mixed income, still doesn’t know what its new identity will be.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

The researchers emphasize that the archaeological evidence cannot establish whether these dogs were cherished pets, working animals, or animals with other roles in Wari society.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Debs was born in 1855 in Terre Haute, Ind., to French immigrant parents who read to him from Victor Hugo and cherished the ideals of the French Revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

High-ranking clergymen experimented with the dangerous ideas of the void and the infinite, even though the ideas struck at the core of the ancient Greek philosophy that the church cherished so much.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife