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acclaimed

 adjective
     
ac‧claimed
publicly praised by a lot of people
highly/widely/universally acclaimed
The book has been widely acclaimed by teachers and pupils.
His work was critically acclaimed (=praised by people who are paid to give their opinion on art, music etc).
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