mythologize
verb
my·thol·o·gize
mi-ˈthä-lə-ˌjīz 
mythologized; mythologizing
1
obsolete
: to explain the mythological significance of
2
: to build a myth around : mythicize
mythologizer
noun
Examples of mythologize in a Sentence
a politician who has been mythologized by his supporters
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The more Macdonald resists mythologizing or summing up, the more John Lennon and Yoko Ono emerge as fragile, complex individuals on a journey together during uncertain times.
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Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2025
The predator, long thought extinct and famously mythologized in pop culture like Game of Thrones, is back, thanks to genetic engineering.
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
Larson mythologized the mid-1990s incarnation of the neighborhood with Rent, the world-conquering rock musical that changed the sound of contemporary musical theater and captured the lives of a clique of artists just as gentrification was moving that world out of lower Manhattan forever.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2025
In Uberto Pasolini’s The Return, Fiennes plays Odysseus, the ancient Greek king of Ithaca, whose long journey home from the Trojan War was mythologized in Homer’s The Odyssey.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
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Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2025
The predator, long thought extinct and famously mythologized in pop culture like Game of Thrones, is back, thanks to genetic engineering.
—John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
Larson mythologized the mid-1990s incarnation of the neighborhood with Rent, the world-conquering rock musical that changed the sound of contemporary musical theater and captured the lives of a clique of artists just as gentrification was moving that world out of lower Manhattan forever.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2025
In Uberto Pasolini’s The Return, Fiennes plays Odysseus, the ancient Greek king of Ithaca, whose long journey home from the Trojan War was mythologized in Homer’s The Odyssey.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Mythologize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mythologize. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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