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romanticizes

  • present tense form
    of romanticize (3rd person singular).
    romanticize
    verb (used with object)
    to make romantic; invest with a romantic character.

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She romanticizes her lover, the Duke disguised as a student, looking in her mirror while applying makeup, as though “Caro Nome” were “I Feel Pretty.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025

I intentionally wear my green bok choy earrings for the interview because, after watching the series, I think that if there’s anyone who can appreciate how nostalgia romanticizes the simplest of objects, it’s Wang.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

Poet romanticizes her career, and her career is her everything, and that stays really true for the past, present and future.

From Salon ● May 24, 2023

The teacher, ever the melancholic, romanticizes ancient Greek as a pinnacle of language that has died and toward which he is still vainly striving.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2023

He misses Caroline terribly, and romanticizes her as the ideal woman.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman