idealize
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I know “quiet” is loaded — a synonym for normalcy, or what we idealize as normal.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2023
A number of Googlers I spoke with framed January’s job cuts—which took place via email—as a wake-up call for Googlers who still idealize their employer.
From Slate • Feb. 9, 2023
“It’s far too easy to idealize one party and villainize another. It’s not the case that every off-road vehicle user is a bad guy, and not every environmentalist is automatically virtuous.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2022
Letting go of a lost cause has two difficult and complicated steps, oversimplified as follows: Fill up your life meaningfully without this person, and resist the temptation to idealize what isn’t there.
From Washington Post • Jan. 9, 2022
At first Fernanda did not talk about her family, but in time she began to idealize her father.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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