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lionize

[lahy-uh-nahyz] / ˈlaɪ əˌnaɪz /


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Decades of lionizing men like Nile Jarvis have made his detestable personality not just easy to spot, but queasily appealing.

From Salon

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

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

I know he wouldn’t have been lionized the way he is today.

From Los Angeles Times

A closer listen shows she isn’t lionizing 18th Street or Florencia 13.

From Los Angeles Times