eulogize
verb
eu·lo·gize
ˈyü-lə-ˌjīz 
eulogized; eulogizing
: to speak or write in high praise of : extol
eulogizer
noun
Examples of eulogize in a Sentence
He was eulogized at his funeral as a great actor and a good friend.
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Sunday's false death report came from one of MLB's most respected insider journalists, Bob Nightengale of USA Today, who took to his X (formerly Twitter) account with the intention of eulogizing a colleague, the award-winning San Diego Union-Tribune sports columnist Bryce Miller.
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Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 23 Mar. 2025
The mom and her two young sons were buried together in one casket and all three were eulogized by Yarden Bibas, husband to Shiri and father to Ariel and Kfir.
—Rachel Wolf, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2025
He was buried in Monroe, where civil rights icon Rosa Parks eulogized him at his funeral.
—Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 25 Feb. 2025
The factual novella lacks the self-soothing aspects of the self-eulogizing fantasy, while telling the same tale, with Hemingway acting, by his frantic verbal participation, as its co-author, contributing to what is at once a parody and, in another way, the superior realization of his own book.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 23 Mar. 2025
The mom and her two young sons were buried together in one casket and all three were eulogized by Yarden Bibas, husband to Shiri and father to Ariel and Kfir.
—Rachel Wolf, Fox News, 28 Feb. 2025
He was buried in Monroe, where civil rights icon Rosa Parks eulogized him at his funeral.
—Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 25 Feb. 2025
The factual novella lacks the self-soothing aspects of the self-eulogizing fantasy, while telling the same tale, with Hemingway acting, by his frantic verbal participation, as its co-author, contributing to what is at once a parody and, in another way, the superior realization of his own book.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
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“Eulogize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eulogize. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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eulogize
verb
eu·lo·gize
ˈyü-lə-ˌjīz
eulogized; eulogizing
: to speak or write high praise of
eulogist
noun
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