idealized
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The researchers suggest that one reason the idea took more than two decades to demonstrate is that the original theory was developed under idealized conditions that are difficult to reproduce experimentally.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Worried about its future and often nostalgic for an idealized past, it's fair to say that much of America saw itself in Dolly Parton.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Thatched-roof houses appeared in glossy renderings, selling an idealized vision of life along this stretch of the Atlantic coast, just over an hour south of Lisbon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
“Everyone wants you to be an idealized version of … not even yourself, but of what they want you to be,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
It would amuse him to know how much she had idealized him, how he had become a person made not of flesh but of little crystals of perfection, the American man she would never have.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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