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also glamourize
as in to idealize
to represent or think of as better than reality would warrant
most people glamorize fame, not thinking of the lack of privacy that accompanies it
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Recent Examples of glamorize
In a sports era today where turning pro and making money early is too often glamorized, Jones showed incredible patience and chased his boyhood dream instead of chasing a quick influx of cash.
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Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2025
The pandemic shined a light on the high cost of child care, while recent social media trends have glamorized a more traditional view of the stay-at-home wife and mother.
—Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2025
Booth glamorizes the hustle, but Lincoln lived the dangers.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2025
Meanwhile, people who do not live in Colombia or any other country maligned by its drug trafficking, are able to make cultural products like Charli XCX’s Brat, where the use of cocaine is glamorized and understood as a rite of passage for white women who like to party.
—Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 4 Feb. 2025
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Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2025
The pandemic shined a light on the high cost of child care, while recent social media trends have glamorized a more traditional view of the stay-at-home wife and mother.
—Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2025
Booth glamorizes the hustle, but Lincoln lived the dangers.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2025
Meanwhile, people who do not live in Colombia or any other country maligned by its drug trafficking, are able to make cultural products like Charli XCX’s Brat, where the use of cocaine is glamorized and understood as a rite of passage for white women who like to party.
—Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 4 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for glamorize
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And these heroes, slightly idealized but by no means infallible versions of the ones who exist in real hospitals, keep showing up, shift after endless shift, to keep pushing that rock up the hill.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
11 Apr. 2025
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Social-media platforms allow people to see more readily than in the past how others—or idealized versions of others—live.—
Moisés Naím,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2025
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Apocalypse Now might fit into that Truffaut problem that sometimes is identified with war films, which is that cinema likes to romanticize and seduce.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
16 Apr. 2025
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Unlike other shows about the elite, The White Lotus doesn't romanticize luxury.—
Kevin Sabet,
Newsweek,
24 Mar. 2025
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Green’s lawyer, John Burke, highlighted how abuse and instability in his childhood led him to idolize gang members and join a gang as a young teenager.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
6 Mar. 2025
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In particular, Spencer idolized Asian American figure skaters such as Nathan Chen and Vincent Zhou, as well as Maxim Naumov, whose parents, Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, were coaches at the Skating Club of Boston and also died in the plane crash.—
Emilie Ikeda,
NBC News,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Glamorize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glamorize. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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