acclaimed
ac·claimed [ ə-ˈklāmd]
: enthusiastically praised
//an acclaimed performance/performer the city's most acclaimed restaurants Greenfeld is best known as a journalist, the author of five acclaimed books of nonfiction …— Jay McInerney
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//Created by acclaimed composer Nolan Williams, Jr., whose vast musical palette ranges from rousing symphonies to jazz and from gospel to R&B, Grace unfolds entirely through gorgeous original songs.
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Kathryn Gregory, The Courier-Journal, "Race, fat-shaming and grit. The 2020 Humana Festival of New American Plays tackles it all," 13 Nov. 2019
//Rolling in a convoy of trucks and buses, a 185-member marching band from South Florida will compete in an acclaimed national competition — the school’s first time.
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Austen Erblat, sun-sentinel.com, "Park Vista marching band off to national competition for first time," 13 Nov. 2019
//One of the most acclaimed South Korean films of recent years, this story of a strange love triangle, starring Steven Yeun and Yoo Ah-In, is mesmerizing.
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Houston Chronicle, "Outside the Megaplex: Here are the Houston arthouse movies showing Oct. 25-31," 24 Oct. 2019
//Just outside the palace lies the Saraswati Mahal Library, arguably the most acclaimed in India, stuffed with tens of thousands of books and documents.
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Alexandra Kirkman, Fortune, "Why You Should Visit Southern India on Your Next Vacation," 22 June 2019
//In the parallel reality of HBO’s His Dark Materials, based on Philip Pullman’s acclaimed novels, daemons are physical manifestations of human souls that exist outside the body as talking animal companions.
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Nick Romano, EW.com, "Meet the daemons: HBO's His Dark Materials reveals voice cast," 30 Aug. 2019
//The Emmy-winning series is based on author Margaret Atwood's acclaimed novel and is set in, what the cast and writers argue, is a not-to-distant-future.
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Whitney Friedlander, CNN, "'The Handmaid's Tale' renewed for Season 4," 26 July 2019
//Buoyed by success, the company has commissioned an opera based on the writings of acclaimed Florida author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
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Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, "Opera Orlando commissions work, heads to Cheyenne Saloon as revenue tops $1 million," 1 July 2019
//Yet this uncommon malignancy is the tie that binds giants of oncology research, scientific breakthroughs, revolutionary drugs, and startling philanthropy, not to mention a Pulitzer Prize-winning book that became an acclaimed PBS documentary series.
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Marie Mccullough, https://www.inquirer.com, "How conquering a rare leukemia in children revolutionized cancer care for millions," 6 June 2019
First Known Use of acclaimed
1867, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries near acclaimed
More Synonyms and Antonyms ofacclaimed
to declare enthusiastic approval of
- she has long been acclaimed by the critics for her realistic acting