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Recent Examples of deification The deification of emperors was fairly standard practice at the time, and the spoof claimed to lift the lid on what really happened during the process. Mary Beard, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023 Bookstores still held their ground here among the shopfronts, and the deification of French writers living and dead was evinced everywhere in street names and statues and advertising hoardings for new novels. Rachel Cusk, New York Times, 2 May 2023 Our work points to a biological explanation for the deification of the species. Nathaniel J. Dominy, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2021 There’s a deification of this absence. Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2023 See all Example Sentences for deification 
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Noun
  • The places of worship allegedly vandalized are University Christian Church in Hillcrest, St. Paul’s Cathedral in Bankers Hill and Ohr Shalom Synagogue, also in Bankers Hill.
    City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Hammond Faith United Church of Christ: 3030 175th St. — Faith United Church of Christ will have a Northwest Indiana International Women’s Day celebration with worship, prize giveaways, appetizers and more.
    Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • While it’s spoken of only briefly, his adoration for vintage McGwyer Mortimer is clearly a way of keeping alive the memory of his late wife, who was an even bigger fan.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2025
  • The directors in both cases grapple with their obvious adoration for the entertainment that shaped them, juxtaposed with the acknowledgment that living through screens can only ever be a simulacrum and not a replacement for a fulfilling existence.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • But as a Christian, the bigger threat in the U.S. now seems to be Evangelical idolatry—this tendency of many Christians to turn a political candidate into an idol, particularly one who has proven himself so thoroughly unfit as Donald Trump.
    Donovan McAbee, TIME, 28 Oct. 2024
  • People begin drifting to certain games or consoles, staring intently at a wall of idolatry.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024

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“Deification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deification. Accessed 18 Feb. 2025.

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