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apotheosize

[uh-poth-ee-uh-sahyz, ap-uh-thee-uh-sahyz] / əˈpɒθ i əˌsaɪz, ˌæp əˈθi əˌsaɪz /


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The hovering brush strokes and vertiginous layering of an emerald Laura Owens canvas apotheosize Photoshop techniques.

From New York Times Jul. 13, 2022

How did the unifying centrist apotheosize into the Notorious RBG, a revered icon of fiery dissent?

From Washington Post Nov. 8, 2018

Now, though, Lewis has taken on his most difficult challenge: He has chosen to apotheosize three obscure government agencies — the Department of Energy, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Commerce.

From New York Times Oct. 8, 2018

To apotheosize the clichés of the genre while subverting them is a neat trick, but the cadre pulls it off.

From Time Apr. 16, 2010

In all ages, in order to justify the passions, it was necessary to apotheosize them.

From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by William Hassell Overton

Yet he maintained that apotheosized idea of the city, born from those formative years of consuming “Talk of the Town” items and witticisms from Algonquin alumni.

From New York Times Dec. 14, 2021

On Feb. 1, the ayatollah, as if apotheosized, returned home triumphantly from France to joy and subsequent years of then-unimagined absolute power and ruthless change.

From New York Times Jan. 11, 2010

In this, the Media Lab has apotheosized the capitalistic philosophy of its parent institution, which in the 20th century pioneered the now-common nexus between academic science and private industry.

From Slate

Guthrie is apotheosized in the folk world partly because of his life, personally carefree and socially committed, and the unrestrained, sometimes vivid way he talked and sang about it.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the anniversary of her death, and Dante was outlining angels to illustrate his sonnets wherein he apotheosized Beatrice.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers by Elbert Hubbard

Even the most lurid forms of behavior are accorded the same apotheosizing gloss.

From New York Times Feb. 23, 2018

While posing as the apostle of light, you will obscure the scintillations of the stars because the sun is hid; while apotheosizing Happiness you would banish Hope, that mother of which it is born.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by William Cowper Brann

And in what land has the apotheosizing imagination been more active than in Japan?

From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick




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