valorize
verb
val·o·rize
ˈva-lə-ˌrīz 
valorized; valorizing
1
: to enhance or try to enhance the price, value, or status of by organized and usually governmental action
using subsidies to valorize coffee
2
: to assign value or merit to : validate
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The director also valorized Aaron Sorkin, the leading expositor of modern control-room intrigue with shows like Sports Night and The Newsroom.
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Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2024
In recent years Ye has taken to sharing controversial political and social beliefs online, often spouting antisemitic screeds on X that valorize the swastika symbol and accusing Jews of being untrustworthy, among other things.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
Although the motion picture memory of the war is in newsreel black and white, Technicolor was used to valorize America’s warriors, as if the prestige format should not be reserved exclusively for Hollywood entertainment.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2025
At home, the atmosphere was decorous, curious, gentle; outside, the culture of the nineteen-fifties was tougher, valorizing war and papering over a darker, more furtive kind of violence.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
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Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2024
In recent years Ye has taken to sharing controversial political and social beliefs online, often spouting antisemitic screeds on X that valorize the swastika symbol and accusing Jews of being untrustworthy, among other things.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
Although the motion picture memory of the war is in newsreel black and white, Technicolor was used to valorize America’s warriors, as if the prestige format should not be reserved exclusively for Hollywood entertainment.
—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2025
At home, the atmosphere was decorous, curious, gentle; outside, the culture of the nineteen-fifties was tougher, valorizing war and papering over a darker, more furtive kind of violence.
—Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for valorize
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“Valorize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/valorize. Accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
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