[Ads-l] relish = 'revel'

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

This is a blend ("relished his strong third-place showing" + "reveled in his strong third-place showing"), aided by the phonetic similarity of "reveled" and "relished".  
The sentence Jon passed along is a beautiful example of this feature (syntactic blend aided by phonetic similarity of the blending elements).
Gerald Cohen

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Jonathan Lighter (February 02, 2016 5:06 PM), wrote:
CNN journalist:
"Last night Marco Rubio relished in his strong third-place showing in Iowa."
JL
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