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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!
Sports historians anointed Indians second baseman Tony Fernandez the goat for missing a ground ball that ended up deciding the game--forgetting that Fernandez's previous two-RBI single was the only reason the Indians were still in the game.
Tiger Woods won the Masters golf tournament and was anointed a Transcendent Sports Phenomenon.
"The exhibition almost never deviates from the Modern's pantheon of anointed artists," says the New York Times ' Roberta Smith.
Having scored well ahead of Bauer and Buchanan, Forbes anointed himself "the conservative in a two-man race" against Bush.