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There’s also a whole bit in the courtroom of David swatting at a fly as his attorney attempts to lionize him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2024

But I am not among your favorite legal commentators, and, as you've probably guessed from the title, I am not here to lionize Justice O'Connor.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2023

They like the stories that either demonize or lionize these people.

From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2023

“There is a prevailing narrative in the public mind to sort of lionize certain weapons systems as having a defining impact on certain conflicts,” he said, but “the reality is often more complex.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2022

Likely she hadn't understood him after all—he had only meant that he didn't want a mob of folks around making a fuss over him and trying to lionize him, as they had probably done over-harbour.

From Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

As Greenspan left office in 2005, Greenspan was lionized as the “maestro,” or the greatest central banker of the century.

From MarketWatch ● May 10, 2026

Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, murdered by the SS before he could be freed by Allied troops, is lionized in American churches, and his letters from prison became standard reading in Bible studies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

Francis merely urged everyone to read up on their Gospels, where Jesus consistently assailed the rich, lionized the poor and lingered with the meek instead of the mighty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2025

Mr. Rusesabagina was lionized globally after the 2004 release of “Hotel Rwanda,” which depicted him as savior of more than 1,200 people at the luxury hotel he managed during the genocide.

From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2023

In his first days at home, Elisha found himself lionized in the papers as an American superhero, and in a serious fight with his family.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

“I think society has just stopped lionizing this kind of guy.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2023

Scientists, the press and the public alike tend to tell and retell these success stories, lionizing intrepid researchers.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

Wakanda is mythical, but it lacks the problematic history rewrite required to make the forthcoming Viola Davis-starring “The Woman King” and its lionizing of a kingdom built on the slave trade palatable.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2022

But change will require us to stop lionizing rogues and scamps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2020

Yet not one instant did he waste in recreation or lionizing.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various