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Example sentences for: anointed

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He earned everything he has, unlike softies like Bush and Forbes, who had the world handed to them, and Clinton, who was anointed by Fulbright and got his own free ride!
Tiger Woods won the Masters golf tournament and was anointed a Transcendent Sports Phenomenon.
Party leaders have anointed Bush because he is mercifully disconnected from Flytrap.
Now that most have made it, the ethnic remnant that once ruled Tammany Hall, Albany, and Boston, and anointed the governors and presidents, has retreated into victimology.
It's easy to understand why McCain has been anointed the media's favorite presidential hopeful.