apotheosize

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Verb
  • Britain’s Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, lauded the president’s efforts and exalted the two nations’ longstanding trade and foreign policy ties.
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 8 May 2025
  • The awards are designed to make adolescents feel just exalted enough to say yes while still extracting the maximum number of dollars from each family.
    Ana Swanson, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Verb
  • The Disability Culture Lab strives to change such narratives from pitiable to dignified by advising journalists on portraying disabled mindsets, pitching pieces involving disability issues, hiring disabled journalists to tell stories more authentically, and connecting journalists to experts.
    Alan Schwarz, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
  • Ajayi Jones dignifies the child and creates space for emotions in a colorful storybook with many important moments sparked by one of her earliest recurring memories.
    Leslie D. Rose, Parents, 22 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Hugo returned to a hero’s welcome, and to the establishment of the Third Republic, which lionized him until it, too, was at last destroyed by the same forces of reactionary authoritarianism, in new uniforms, in 1940.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
  • His life wasn’t cut short like the lives of Jimi Hendrix or John Lennon, which was great, but also meant that he wasn’t lionized as a brilliant comet gone too soon.
    Ben Greenman, Pitchfork, 10 June 2025
Verb
  • The Belgian master of minimalism and wabi-sabi forever changed the design of sofas, and his way with rough-hewn wood furniture and beams, pale linen, an earthy palette, and a masterful blending of East and West and antique and contemporary are now canonized among professionals.
    Amy Astley, Architectural Digest, 25 June 2025
  • The late teen will be canonized alongside Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, another young saint-to-be who lived almost 100 years earlier.
    Michael Nied, People.com, 13 June 2025
Verb
  • Internationally aspirational with a presence in all the major markets, the house is revered for both its great value cuvées, and its prestigious Blanc de Blancs ‘Comtes de Champagne’ - one of the world’s best sparkling wines.
    Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
  • Two centuries after his downfall, Napoleon remains both revered and controversial in France -- but above all, unavoidable.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 June 2025
Verb
  • But Pi is precociously enlightened, his innocence not a problem to be rectified but a quality to be reverenced.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025
  • But Trump also reverenced the tough job Emmer has in keeping the GOP majority together, with which Emmer is all too familiar after the chaotic last two years.
    Emily Brooks, The Hill, 3 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Pilgrims have long venerated the site, according to the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1914.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2025
  • Apollo, the god of archery and the son of Zeus, was venerated both in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2025
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“Apotheosize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apotheosize. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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