idealized

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In many ways, “Battlestar” is an idealized version of what a multicultural, egalitarian society can look like – if not here, then perhaps on some distant planet.

From Salon • May 5, 2026

The looks-focused trend promotes a narrow and idealized version of masculinity with specific physical traits.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

In the idealized version of American healthcare, it’s the role of the primary care doctor, or PCP, to guide this patient.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

His precious moments are not memories of an idealized past, nor projections of a tantalizing dream, but interventions in our complex present that reveal beautiful and unsettling layers.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026

While Madison's frame of reference was instinctively political, and idealized the dispersal of power naturally checked by the inherent diversity of diffused interest groups, Hamilton’s cast of mind was instinctively economic.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis