lionization

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And, per Zernike, the lionization of the “lone genius” in science, often used as a cover for bullying, is gradually giving way to a spirit of collaboration.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2023

These supporters were the expected conservatives and libertarians, but liberals, too; the lionization of free speech cuts across ideology.

From Washington Post • Jun. 6, 2022

Image: Wikipedia If there’s a dark side to the film’s idealism, it’s General Magic’s lionization of punishing development crunch times.

From The Verge • Apr. 22, 2018

The major beneficiary of this nutritional lionization has been John Yudkin, a prominent British nutritionist who declared sugar to be Pure, White and Deadly in 1972 in a widely read popular book.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2018

The renowned Tupper is undergoing the process of lionization.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various