Example Sentences

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Broke up with an increasingly distant boyfriend and am realizing I was romanticizing his potential, rather than looking at what he was doing.

From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2022

But a spokesman for South Korea's Foreign Affairs Ministry told reporters on Tuesday that Japan was "romanticizing" its past military aggression.

From Reuters • Apr. 22, 2014

His mistake was that he was romanticizing what was happening, was carried away by an idea, by a feeling, and did not take the sensible or professional steps.

From Slate • Oct. 8, 2013