idealize
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It’s easy to idealize the ’60s, but I wonder how it compares to today, in terms of your ability to get things done as an activist?
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 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
“I am going to speak out against those who praise fascist murderers and idealize extremists. I am going to speak out against Holocaust deniers. I’m going to call those out who won’t do it.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2023
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
Not much to idealize when you know your aunt is crying herself to sleep next door and nothing can be done.
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
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