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For the rest, the rhythm section is provided by Steve Jordan, who Watts had anointed as his successor.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2023

President Obama had anointed him, after all, as one of the Democratic Party’s rising stars.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2022

By 1946, Igor Kurchatov, architect of the Soviet nuclear weapons program, had anointed the institute “Laboratory No. 1” and closed its doors to the outside world.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 6, 2022

On Tibet, Jiang was reluctant to deal with the Dalai Lama, the region's exiled spiritual leader, who had anointed a six-year-old boy as the second most senior monk in Tibetan Buddhism.

From Reuters • Nov. 30, 2022

I knew he had anointed me to preach the gospel, to bind up the brokenhearted, and to proclaim liberty to the captives.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry