verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
extolling...the virtues of (= praising very much )
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Wilkins is now extolling the virtues of organic farming.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
virtue
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The following speech extols the virtues of order and degree.
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The appraiser went on for some time, extolling the virtues of the scholarship.
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But now is not the time to be extolling the virtues of Anglo-Saxon shareholder capitalism.
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At news conferences in each town, he dutifully steps to the podium and extols the virtues of such a noteworthy matchup.
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The tutor extols the virtues of this approach and you, of course, agree.
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We have had several letters from readers extolling the virtues of ponies, and how many are having enormous fun with them.
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Since the war, each time the Conservative Party has come into power it has extolled the virtues of the market.
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This man drinks alone, perhaps because he has driven away all his companions by extolling the virtues of his bank.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All the writings that extolled the role of Mary were ultimately excluded from the canon.
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But now is not the time to be extolling the virtues of Anglo-Saxon shareholder capitalism.
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Everywhere, the glory of the ancient era is extolled in stone.
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Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.
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The extreme western edge of the square has the now compulsory big city billboards extolling the virtues of consumerism.
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The fundamentalist opposition movements that extol the veil are reactivating this age-old connection.
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Thus ran the old rhyme, extolling the produce of the Bunnhouse, situated between Union and Westbourne Streets.