heroize
Americanverb (used with object)
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Origin of heroize
Example Sentences
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We like to think we’ve learned something since then because hundreds of thousands took to the streets to heroize Black everyman George Floyd.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2021
The book doesn’t heroize them for turning their backs on hatred or gloss over their heinous crimes.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2020
If the mainstream vilifies aliens and outsiders as beasts or monsters, the extremes heroize beasts and monsters.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2018
Do not glorify crime nor heroize criminals by giving a false glamor and thus exciting sympathy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Canada was beginning to understand, to heroize and to censure Sam Hughes.
From The Masques of Ottawa by Bridle, Augustus
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