monumentalize

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Horibuchi’s virtuoso paintings examine the amateur and monumentalize the ephemeral and the tender without any sentimentality.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2021

But what if we decided to monumentalize subtler expressions?

From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2020

The goal here is less to monumentalize an artist or a style than to tell a complex story of how art is made by one person of protean energy over a specific stretch of time.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2014

In part, as Primack suggests, this reflects the tech publications that monumentalize each brain fart and photo-sharing app generated by the wizards of  Mid-Market.

From Forbes • May 25, 2013

With the Jolly Green Giant, he resurrected a pagan harvest god to monumentalize "the bounty of the good earth"--and to sell peas.

From Time Magazine Archive