cherish
verb (used with object)
to hold or treat as dear; feel love for.
have cherished
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present perfectof cherish.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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But unfortunately for those of us who have cherished her as a performer, there was more.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
I have cherished that moment for the intervening four decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2021
In closing, Hatfield states that he feels blessed to have worked in the newspaper industry and to have cherished the time spent telling a community’s stories.
From Washington Times ● May 27, 2018
So did five conservative House members, all of them from affluent Kansas City-area suburbs in Johnson County, the state’s most populous, where voters have cherished good public schools for decades.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2016
The conception of a disinterested truth which we have cherished since the Middle Ages is itself a value that has a social basis as really as had the dogma of the church.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
