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Mapplethorpe genuflects at the altar of that icon with a platinum portrait of Warhol, backed by a halo of light and surrounded by silk panels that form a cross.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Without anything divine to revere, American home and landscape design largely genuflects at the altar of the market.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2025

The woman who holds the head genuflects with her soaking parcel.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2020

But “The Andromeda Evolution” genuflects appropriately to the 1969 novel that instantly infected pop culture.

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2019

According to Baldeschi, the veil is removed from the celebrant when he genuflects in the predella, after having given the benediction.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, December 1864 by Various