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“It’s really important for students to not deify one historical person, one figure, but to understand the motivation and the movement,” Young said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026

“We want to vilify people for transgressions and we deify sports heroes,” Abrams said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2022

We build monuments and deify leaders in an effort to transcend our mortality.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 28, 2022

Why can’t Americans come to terms with our racist past without feeling compelled to demonize those we used to deify?

From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2020

Man’s subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

While Butler humanizes Elvis, Luhrmann deifies him and argues that he possessed far more radical potential, both musically and politically, than he was allowed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2022

Gebru said the way the tech industry is covered by the media, which to her deifies tech leaders, helps shield tech companies from scrutiny.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 15, 2021

“Some men she extols, exalts, and almost deifies; others, whose virtues are far greater, and whose characters are more deserving of commendation, she passes by unheeded, and puts the finger of silence on her lips.”

From Washington Times ● Sep. 16, 2020

Anyone else get the reference of Wags' comment abou moving Taylor "closer to the bima"? Obviously, he deifies Axe.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2017

Rome deifies thee because of thy great kinsman.

From "Unto Caesar" by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

But homeownership should be neither deified as a moral imperative nor presented as a sure-thing investment opportunity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

There was even a time when even George W. Bush was practically deified.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2024

But rather than commune with Marika, his deified mother, Miquella wants to escape the strictures and expectations of her Golden Order.

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

"The child would become deified and worshipped for generations as the villagers' intermediary with the gods".

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2023

Quirinus was the name of the deified Romulus, the founder of Rome.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

“They are not perfect. They are not perfect. We have to stop deifying them,” Mr. Lemon said.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 9, 2020

It acts as a deifying diptych to that of The Epic – from space to the earthly pursuit of heaven.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 21, 2019

One is a pitch-dark, but also visually cute, animated series that has perfected, by not deifying or lauding, the antihero, who this season was even more explicitly shown to be a #MeToo creep.

From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2018

We can imagine deifying different bodies or a wider variety of them; we might even imagine a post-gaze society, where we lust after personality and spirit rather than external appearance.

From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2018

The habit of exaggerating, of deifying those whom we have been taught to regard as the greatest and best, is a well-known disposition of the human mind.

From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook