The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day.
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express a good opinion of
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make attractive or acceptable
Honesty recommends any person.
source: WordNet 3.0
To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a favorable light before any one; to bestow commendation on; as, he recommended resting the mind and exercising the body.
