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extolling

  • present participle of extol.

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Extolling the virtues of dial-up dalliances, Suzanne Fellini recorded perhaps the most relevant and practical of the songs for a quarantine playlist.

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2020

Extolling the virtues of big-time college sports to the unpaid laborers grows harder and harder as the stacks grow taller and taller.

From Washington Times • Dec. 21, 2016

Extolling Montagu’s contribution in Getting Even, Woody Allen wrote, “He freed mankind from the hot lunch. We owe him so much.”

From Time • Nov. 3, 2014

Extolling Brown's stand for human dignity in the face of unjust edict, Henry David Thoreau called him "the most American of us all."

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2011

Extolling its many virtues, the salesman noted that this was El Jefe’s favorite car.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez