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“People are getting trapped into looking at all these videos that glamorize the industry and they forgo any other due diligence,” Ochoa said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

It didn’t valorize or glamorize the economic downturn; it just portrayed it in the way that the people who lived there experienced it.

From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2026

Wang recognizes it’s her ability to be both inside and outside Hong Kong’s discourse that allows her to glamorize the daily realities of locals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

Michael Mann’s Ferrari may glamorize speed, but Mann isn’t shy about showing its consequences.

From Slate ● Nov. 27, 2023

“I suppose I did glamorize it a bit,” he admitted.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

Yes I know there’s a cult that loves its night tennis, that glamorizes it, that thinks it’s an essential part of the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Ms. McKinney compared its appeal to that of Van Life — a cultural movement that glamorizes living in a small space.

From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2021

With a fresh fade in denim-on-denim or in a suave black-and-yellow rayon shirt, Tre glamorizes himself as anxious teenagers often do: boldly, loudly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2021

“I feel it very much glamorizes it,” she said.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 31, 2017

He’s a young Mark Zuckerberg lookalike who glamorizes entrepreneurship.

From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2017

"It's very glamorized, and it feels very professional and fun," said Grace Stark, a world 100m bronze medallist in Tokyo last month.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025

Lestat’s figment doubles as his love’s guilty conscience and a glamorized memory.

From Salon ● May 26, 2024

I’ve spent my life training my own organic neural network on glamorized images of beachside bonfires, generic office shenanigans, rise-and-grind sports montages, chemically horned-up retirees, unblemished sneakers on gritty streets.

From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

Beyond that, most people present a glamorized version of their lives online, and instead of listening, empathizing and engaging in conversations, people leap to confrontations, trying to publicly obliterate anyone who disagrees with them.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2022

Now that he had gone, these things, so long subdued by his presence, were glamorized in his wake.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

By upgrading marriage registries with chandeliers, flower arches and poetry, local Chinese officials are glamorizing city hall weddings in hopes of encouraging young couples to marry and boost the nation’s declining birthrate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

“She’s glamorizing the lie that women can have it all!”

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

Though the streamer’s history of glamorizing and heightening heinous acts isn’t necessarily indicative of the quality of “The Perfect Neighbor,” it does cloud the documentary’s release with apprehension.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2025

Bayona’s film seeks to honor the story and strays away from glamorizing or sensationalizing the horrors the passengers and crew members endured.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2024

Though Van Soest’s film plays into Blanchard’s desire for fame, the director says he worried about glamorizing his subject too much and admits it was a tricky balancing act.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2023