anointed

Should be a library provided Result type (or hell, even an anointed type like Optional, anything but exceptions).

This is backed up by the fact that they obviously haven't anointed a successor, as it were.

The old guard of fanatics is slowly dying, and their anointed successors are very unpopular.

So it is not quite right to say that emacs has been anointed by Linus.

I suspect that the VC industry has pretty much anointed Coinbase as the defacto north american exchange winner.

Because we all know they didn't actually work hard to get their position, they were anointed by the king.

Being anointed by Silicon Valley doesn't make real success a foregone conclusion.

JS was anointed long ago, and if we knew then what we knew now, maybe it wouldn't have been so?

It doesn't need to be anointed by Microsoft to be 'viable'.

I think it's that it is a self-anointed title in nearly all cases.

) They've lost sight of this noble objective with an inflexible policy; who anointed Project Zero guardians of the internet?

Some anointed people want power for themselves and want to still money from people like us who are working hard in the name of poor people nothing else.

But I'm sure they all ran around as "anointed smart people" claiming all the others on the committee are anointed smart people instead.

All the C++ "anointed smart people" complain people use the wrong STL datastructures but don't show any cleverness at all in solving that problem.

"Nuntio vobis gaudium magnum, habemus editorum." Now that emacs has been anointed by Linus, I hereby announce emacs the winner of the long lasting editor wars.

It works that the ones who create this order in a community, with the members themselves, are the same ones who should wield the power to exclude members to protect some values, rather than an asymmetric power self-granted to some external self-anointed "authority".