Applauding [verb]

“This is an example of the progress that can be achieved when you collaborate and dedicate resources to improving the quality of water,” said Ohio governor Mike DeWine last year, applauding the EPA’s decision to declare fish in the river safe to eat.

To which the farmers and ranchers listening to his speech applauded very mightily.

Further, while TikTok should be applauded for exposing its algorithm, its competitors are likely to scoff at its suggestion that “all companies should disclose their algorithms, moderation policies, and data flows to regulators.”

We try to show all sides to the story’ — lots of people are trying to do that … I applaud what they try to get at, but I just don’t see that as a defendable position.

Protecting their funding is a noble intention, and the Legislature should be applauded for it.

A small contingent of the members hurried off to applaud the successful comic opera of the hour.

I think so, at least, by the agitation they are in and by the self-satisfied air with which they applaud their success.

When June's fortune is finished all applaud her, as if she had performed some feat of skill, and then Mr. Morrell seizes Wy.

All eyes are bent in eager gaze to catch the first glimpse of the new Hamlet—all hands are ready to applaud.

He himself was sufficient audience to himself, ready to applaud and condemn with equal exaggeration of feeling.