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lauds

British  
/ lɔːdz /

noun

  1. (functioning as singular or plural) RC Church the traditional morning prayer of the Western Church, constituting with matins the first of the seven canonical hours

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Etymology

Origin of lauds

C14: see laud

Example Sentences

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On the stump, he often lauds Trump for creating a "rip-roaring economy."

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Specifically, he lauds Georgia for doing “a really good job of really limiting how many drop boxes you can have.”

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That position may be true, but a viewpoint that lauds mayoral control by undermining teachers’ voices and unions is misguided and dangerous.

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One of Council’s vendors, Stephannie Renee Cooper Senegal, who is Black and owns a fourth-generation-recipe praline candy company, cited Ecclesiastes 4:12, the Biblical verse that lauds three strands strengthened by braiding together.

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Center for Civic Media, sees the dark side of a society in which all trust is lost, but he lauds activists who work around institutions and those trying to fix them or create new ones.

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