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apostrophize

[uh-pos-truh-fahyz] / əˈpɒs trəˌfaɪz /


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Or that the prolix Gaev — a man as likely to apostrophize a piece of furniture as the stars above — keeps promising he’ll be quiet.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2011

No bright and overwhelming genius appeared in 1947 to light the way and apostrophize the age.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even Sweden's cautious Premier Per Albin Hansson was stirred to apostrophize a common Scandinavian labor market, economic collaboration, common Nordic citizenship.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus did Adolf Hitler apostrophize his beloved season, spring.

From Time Magazine Archive

He worshiped what he called thoughts, would rave about a thought in the abstract, apostrophize an uncaught idea.

From Home Again by George MacDonald

Ali Tepelena, once apostrophized by Byron, was real; Albania certainly exists.

From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2018

Sealing the message of political friendship was a video of the center’s namesake, apostrophized as “the greatest Irish American,” speaking during his visit to Ireland in 1963.

From Washington Post ● May 18, 2016

Intriguingly, many of the cultural figures whom Harrison has apostrophized in her art are men—Amerigo Vespucci, Charles Darwin, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, as well as DiCaprio, Cheney, and, in his “Scarface” role, Al Pacino.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 15, 2014

And in discussing the skill that has possessed and apostrophized her life, she can speak with objective authority and candor, as if the poet were not even there.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus stood we as the sun arose,—that "Sun of Austerlitz!" so often appealed to and apostrophized by Napoleon as gilding the greatest of his glories.

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II by Charles James Lever

So why do we still read him, and why do so many people still flock to his plays, despite their archaisms lichened with footnotes and, to citizens of our ironic century, his easily parodied apostrophizing?

From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2021

Now, when she sat down to write in her notebook, she found herself apostrophizing anything that crossed her mind, addressing concepts and objects directly, trying to name their component parts.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 22, 2016

For all its apostrophizing of the open road, most of the nation dutifully drives at 55 m.p.h., willingly undergoes searches before boarding planes, humbly douses cigarettes from time to time.

From Time Magazine Archive

On glimpsing her, Poe might have written his poem "To Helen" apostrophizing the most beguiling beauty of the ancient world.

From Time Magazine Archive

It's mainly pictures of Miss. Lulu Tulu in a large Florodora hat, with verses below apostrophizing the poetry of motion of her jaws.

From The Spinner's Book of Fiction by Various




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