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Recent Examples on the Web Trump’s allies have wasted no time in lionizing him and using the attempt on his life as campaign fodder. Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 16 July 2024 The post was followed up by a YouTube video lionizing GameStop that was made many years ago. Chris Morris, Fortune, 13 May 2024 Gone With the Wind, Victor Fleming’s epic film lionizing the Confederacy and enshrining Lost Cause ideology for a generation, had arrived in theaters several years prior to Song of the South and was a box-office and critical sensation, winning eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Bethanee Bemis, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2024 Today, though, Oppenheimer is lionized while Bush is little known outside a small circle of historians, computer scientists, and policy thinkers. IEEE Spectrum, 18 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for lionize 

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“Lionize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lionize. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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