lionize
verb (used with object)
to treat (a person) as a celebrity.
lionization
-
a word derived from
lionize.
Example Sentences
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This focus on shared credit subverts the typical American lionization of individual success.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2024
These supporters were the expected conservatives and libertarians, but liberals, too; the lionization of free speech cuts across ideology.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 6, 2022
Our reviewer, Lucinda Rosenfeld, said that it “bravely questions the particularly female lionization of thin and loathing of fat.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2021
Image: Wikipedia If there’s a dark side to the film’s idealism, it’s General Magic’s lionization of punishing development crunch times.
From The Verge ● Apr. 22, 2018
Then came the news of Speke's return and lionization in London.
From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Thomas Wright
