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It did not hurt that the story was set in Harlem, a place I had never seen but had romanticized with my limited knowledge of the writers of the Renaissance.

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2018

For years, Mr. Musk had romanticized the idea of Tesla going private.

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2018

This was not the raucous center of counterculture that Stan Lee had romanticized in the 1960s.

From New York Times • Apr. 13, 2018

Jamison had romanticized the “unhinged sparks of luminous chaos” she saw in the lives and work of writers like the poet John Berryman.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2018

The whole thing was blent in him with poetry—his imagination had romanticized the acquisitive instinct, as the religious feeling of the Middle Ages turned passion into love.

From Tales of Men and Ghosts by Wharton, Edith