anthologize
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of anthologize
First recorded in 1890–95; antholog(y) + -ize
Example Sentences
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The Times caught up with Mensch, Flahive and Santamaria to discuss what it was like to anthologize female experiences across different backgrounds and genres.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
To properly anthologize the genre in full is to reckon with its contradictions, its competing narratives and its inconsistencies.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2021
Walker explains that the Folio Society wanted to anthologize the major Marvel eras, and its “aim was to allow readers to get closer to the Golden Age of Marvel Comics than they’ve ever been.”
From The Verge ● Aug. 14, 2019
Ms. Morrison also helped anthologize the writings of African authors including Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2019
It is the first series under FX's "American Crime Story" banner that will anthologize true crime stories.
From Reuters ● Jan. 7, 2015
“Rarely has anyone who has written so little been quoted and anthologized so much,” David Denby writes in his introduction to the expanded 2001 edition of Robert Warshow’s essays on film, theater, books and more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
Decades later, while doing business with Concord Music, he realized that Sylvester’s music from that era had never been fully anthologized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
After an exuberant opening number that anthologized more than 20 well-known musicals, DeBose reminded viewers of the efforts being made to create a more diverse Broadway.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2022
Both stories were anthologized in “The Best American Travel Writing.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
“That’s partly what’s so awful. I mean they’re not real poets. They’re just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place, but they’re not poets.”
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
Many small presses in the region had been anthologizing local ghost stories for years.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2019
The good news about “The Emerald Light in the Air” is that it contains two masterpieces of the short story form, stories I hope are anthologized until anthologizing ends in fire or ice.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2014
Even so, two hours of this kind of frenzied anthologizing, however well meant, are exhausting.
From Time Magazine Archive
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