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adjective

as in exalting

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verb

present participle of enshrine
as in elevating
to assign a high status or value to some teachers tend to enshrine their personal preferences as sacred rules of English grammar

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Recent Examples of enshrining
Adjective
This includes re-enshrining, codifying and strengthening our inalienable rights in the United States and abolishing ICE to ensure immigration and the struggle of migrants is treated as a civilian one, requiring support instead of brutality and criminalization. — Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
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Drake’s midlife crisis is seemingly less about shoring up his legacy as a legendary artist than enshrining himself as a historic main character capable of capturing the public’s attention by appealing to its most base instincts. — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026 Those realities have not prevented the teams themselves from enshrining the guilty, or the allegedly guilty. — Mac Engel july 24, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 July 2026 So this was really a dispute among the justices about understanding how far the victors basically of the civil war wanted to go in enshrining ideas about broad US citizenship. — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 1 July 2026 Earlier this year, the General Assembly passed the Maryland Voting Rights Act, enshrining components of the federal VRA into state law. — Anthony G. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2026 Trump signed the bill, enshrining their orders into law. — Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 22 June 2026 State constitutions, which often have clauses enshrining equality and education, can serve as a pathway for challenges to segregation that results from economics and housing patterns, said Robert Williams, a professor of law emeritus at Rutgers University. — Annie Ma, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026 That comment was even entered as an exhibit in the court case, officially enshrining Musk’s lies into the judicial record. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 30 Apr. 2026 On May 8, 1969, the Warriors made Long Rife their 13th-round selection in that year’s draft, enshrining her in the history books as the first woman drafted by an NBA team. — Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enshrining
  1. elevating
  2. promoting
  3. lifting
Verb
  • Then Van Ginkel and Greenard each missed five games to injuries last season, quickly elevating Turner's importance to the defense.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The Corps plan involves elevating 2,800 single-family homes, as well as 430 multifamily buildings.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of elevating
Verb
  • Center City Partners is a nonprofit focused on promoting the economic and social growth of Charlotte’s core, which includes uptown, midtown and South End.
    — Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 28 Aug. 2026
  • For Pope, the rally is about finding community alongside promoting voting rights.
    — Matt Brown, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of promoting
Verb
  • The machine can also carry out lifting operations independently, according to the company.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Others have called for lifting the cap, but only above a certain income threshold.
    — Kevin Freking, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of lifting

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“Enshrining.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enshrining. Accessed 30 Aug. 2026.

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