idolization

Example Sentences

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Still, defectors often say the hardest thing about transitioning to the outside world is shedding their idolization of Kim.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

I drew on my idolization of my sister who was the coolest, punkest person ever.

From Salon • May 1, 2023

How, after all, could a boy who had never grown up expect to cope with the world he found himself in, with the expectation and the demands, with the idolization and the temptation?

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2020

In the process, he earned himself near-mythical status among his enemies and idolization by his Iranian hard-line supporters.

From Washington Post • Jan. 2, 2020

Cooksey “brought a certain idolization of Lawrence into the laboratory,” Livingston observed more than thirty years after his departure.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik