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And this should prompt us to re-examine the very idea of role models in sports — and reel in our natural instincts to deify men.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 9, 2022

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

From Scientific American ● Feb. 28, 2022

American society tends to deify businesses and and athletes, he said.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2021

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

In a culture that deifies celebrities, Williams remains one whose memory is often invoked with affectionate nostalgia, accompanied by some of his better movie quotes, or from one of his stand-up sets.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2023

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

Three other creeds, the Brahminical, the Confucian, and that which deifies the heavenly bodies, have many adherents; but their priests all acknowledge a certain religious supremacy to exist in the Kin-rey.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 448 Volume 18, New Series, July 31, 1852 by William Chambers

His manager deified his name, claiming he had just unleashed one of the greatest bullpen performances in baseball history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

The themes of performances at Mr Gopalakrishnan's house include honouring a deified ancestor, venerating a warrior-hunter deity, and worshipping tiger spirits symbolising strength and protection.

From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024

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

By 1608 it was possible to complain that ‘nowadays the discoverers of new things are virtually deified’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

It is certainly true that at some point we, as a culture, must stop deifying people whose work, message or backstory we admire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2023

There is a long and rich tradition of popular music fans deifying their icons.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2021

The journalists warning of the dangers of deifying Conway have most often aimed that message at adults.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2020

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

From Washington Times ● Jul. 9, 2020

Thus it naturally followed that the custom of deifying all things which the primitive mind was unable to grasp, led in direct line to the fire-worship of later days.

From The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé by Harry Houdini