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Six example sentences with anoint, each labelled with its topic.
Party elders tried to anoint a successor before the primary, presenting him as the inevitable choice nobody could question.
Politics
Scouts rushed to anoint the eighteen-year-old as the next great forward before he had played a professional minute.
Basketball
Successive schools anoint one thinker as the true heir of Kant, and the rest of the century argues about it.
Philosophy
Venture firms like to anoint one company as the winner of a category years before customers have decided anything.
Startups
Critics rushed to anoint the nineteen-year-old as the voice of her generation after a single album.
Music
Every bull market seems to anoint a new star fund manager, and the next downturn quietly takes the title back.
Finance
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