apotheosizing

verb

present participle of apotheosize
as in exalting

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  1. exalting
  2. canonizing
  3. honoring
  4. lionizing
  5. worshipping
  6. magnifying
  7. respecting
  8. dignifying
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  • This has been an awesome showcase of American community, with our own USMNT support and other countries’ diasporas springing up exalting watch parties all over the place.
    — Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 19 July 2026
  • The story goes that Balanchine was so struck by the multi-colored glow of the jewelry displays at the Van Cleef & Arpels New York showroom that this led him to create a dance exalting their beauty.
    — Guillermo Perez, Miami Herald, 24 Mar. 2026
Definition of exalting
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  • From ancient epics to contemporary headlines, humans have spent centuries canonizing courage as a rare and admirable virtue.
    — Cynthia Pury, The Conversation, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Ryan believes that canonizing Kirk as the patron saint of MAGA may have backfired in a subtle but important way.
    — Ryan Broderick, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2025
Definition of canonizing
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  • Indeed, relatively few spacecraft of any kind have borne female names over the years — and most of the ones that did were not honoring actual, real-life people.
    — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure has added a memorial honoring legendary comic artist/creator Jack Kirby.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of honoring
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  • In the early days of the war, Union troops from Boston had borrowed the familiar melody of a religious camp meeting song and added new lyrics lionizing John Brown, the leader of the 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia).
    — Steven Johnson, Washington Post, 14 July 2026
  • That brings us back to the folly of lionizing Kent as a conscientious objector to Trump and the president’s hawkish foreign policy as of late.
    — David M. Drucker, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026
Definition of lionizing
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  • Sakela is typically expressed through dance, music, group rituals and by worshipping nature.
    — PhotoVogue, Vogue, 13 Aug. 2026
  • That was more than 25 years ago now, but the town retains the same residential, wave-worshipping vibes.
    — Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of worshipping
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  • One of the telescope’s magnifying lenses focused on the Sun, and the intense rays started a fire.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2026
  • But the order will leave its mark by magnifying the confusion many parents already face in making decisions about their children’s immunizations.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of magnifying
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  • The council has its own independent contribution to make respecting the unregulated sweepstakes machines.
    — Joe Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Love the Georgia peach down, but respecting the fidelity of partnership has never been one of her strong points.
    — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of respecting
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  • This deeply affecting memoir, which is strung like a wire between the alienation of the assembly line and the dignifying promise of literature, documents his experience.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
Definition of dignifying
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“Apotheosizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apotheosizing. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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