idolize
verb (used with object)
to regard with blind adoration, devotion, etc.
have idolized
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present perfectof idolize.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Citing its 25% of 2023’s acting nominations as “mad,” he’s in awe of being “in a category with Colin, somebody else I have idolized, whose performance is phenomenal. Part of me is rooting for Colin.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
Older voters recall the Soviet Union's hosting of the 1980 Moscow Olympics with nostalgia and in recent years Kremlin-backed films and TV programs have idolized Soviet sportspeople from ice hockey players to gymnasts.
From Reuters ● Jul. 22, 2016
And as a teenager at St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire, a young Kerry is said to have idolized Kennedy’s brother, who had just been elected to the White House.
From Time ● Aug. 5, 2015
If I had watched The Simpsons as a kid, I think some small part of me would have idolized Bart, but I would have remained a Lisa.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2014
Had he lived in those early times, the generous enthusiasm of the antient world would have idolized his name.
From The Eulogies of Howard by William Hayley
