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romanticized

VERB
make glamorous
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By threading Celan’s poems through the lived record, Ms. Arno restores a proud, wounded, flirtatious, multilingual man often romanticized by reverence.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

The pitch for the theme park was to show the Golden State as a romanticized destination, celebrating our people, our nature, our food and our glamour through a lighthearted, optimistic lens.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 6, 2026

She also felt “untethered” from her college friends who, she writes, romanticized her time with revolutionaries as “far out” and “cool.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 3, 2026

While home swapping is romanticized in movies like “The Holiday,” the idea of actually letting a stranger stay in your house while you’re not there might feel daunting.

From MarketWatch Feb. 19, 2026

In the same vein, all the heroic portraits of the great men were romanticized distortions.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis



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