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The old common-law “hue and cry” is not a model to romanticize; it could be coercive, punitive, and exclusionary.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

“It’s easy to romanticize it, to say, ‘I want to live among the locals.’

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

Or maybe it’s just as simple as Bramsen’s assessment: “It’s a very Gen Z thing to romanticize weird situations.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

FY: We’re not as exotic as we might romanticize it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

It is important to keep in mind, though, that many rappers and hip-hop artists do not aim to glorify or romanticize gangsta life or culture.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

The comedy premiered in 2015 on the CW and is about a character so desperate to feel happy that she romanticizes a relationship she had as a teenager at summer camp.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025

She romanticizes her lover, the Duke disguised as a student, looking in her mirror while applying makeup, as though “Caro Nome” were “I Feel Pretty.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025

But on the other, he romanticizes the legendary songwriting duo’s friendship out of proportion with the immutable facts of history.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2025

The teacher, ever the melancholic, romanticizes ancient Greek as a pinnacle of language that has died and toward which he is still vainly striving.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2023

He misses Caroline terribly, and romanticizes her as the ideal woman.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

“Brazil can join the regional transformation that, in recent years, has allowed Latin America to shed its image as a land of romanticized poverty,” Milei said, “and become a synonym for progress.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

The Keith painting is “quintessential California, a romanticized view of the Sierra Nevada range. William Keith, the painter, was friends with John Muir,” Falcone said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

Licolli, the poultry organizer, said she has “never romanticized the immigrant community and the immigrant movement.”

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2026

That’s by design, says Mero, who cites the ornately romanticized vibe and color palette of the Los Angeles Theatre as prime inspiration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026

For weeks, perhaps months, these children and their mothers cling to romanticized notions of how they should feel toward each other.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

"We are not romanticizing poverty. We want to change the prejudice that exists in people's minds."

From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026

As Ms. Low says, many women need to “stop romanticizing work” and “remember that your employer will never love you back.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025

No doubt there's a long history of Americans romanticizing criminals, going back at least to Jesse James or Billy the Kid, who became icons of the Wild West.

From Salon ● May 31, 2024

What’s more, it points directly at the immense danger of romanticizing the past, imagining that if we could only reclaim and reframe and resurrect history, our present problems would be solved.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2024

“It sounds nice. But do you think you arc romanticizing? ‘The restless grey sea’?”

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins