cherished

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A memorial concert celebrating his life and music will be held at a later date, with proceeds benefiting Peacebuilders Canada, a cause he cherished, his publicist said.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026

Many years ago, when I was a newbie newspaper reporter in the Boston Globe’s Washington bureau, one of my colleagues, Tom Oliphant, gave me a tip that I’ve cherished ever since.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2026

In revisiting his cherished alien subgenre for the fourth time with “Disclosure Day,” Spielberg returns to where his career started, scraping away the classic marks of extraterrestrial intrigue and replacing them with human counterpoints.

From Salon • Jun. 13, 2026

Another finds nothing common in the common eider, with its cherished but endangered down.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

The snowfall obliterated the borders between the fields and made Kabuo Miyamoto’s long- cherished seven acres indistinguishable from the land that surrounded them.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson