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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

The man deifies his Beloved, the mother her child, and all men everlasting humanity.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke

It’s a Taoist temple where people come to worship Guan Di, a deified Chinese general revered as the god of commerce and war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

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

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

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2024

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

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2023

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

The deifying worked well enough when Stoops, a self-described “program guy,” ruled Norman.

From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2021

“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

This certainly looked like deifying the man they delighted to honor, and I remember it seemed very wicked to me.

From 'Three Score Years and Ten' Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West by Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark Van Cleve