as in to idealize
to represent or think of as better than reality would warrant
a movie that does its best to glamour up the field of archaeology
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Post-Aristotle, infinity was always idealized, never realized — a philosophical construct at best.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
25 Nov. 2025 -
For most home cooks, a once-a-year turkey is a gastronomic absurdity, needlessly idealized, inevitably formidable to prepare.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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The seasonal shift to cheaper winter-blend gasoline could help offset cost increases related to the refinery fire, softening the impact for drivers.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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The seat is made of high-density foam that softens with use and has a supportive spring underpinning.—
Shea Simmons,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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Creative activations, particularly ones that shock or disquiet, can make the problem of textile waste visible in a city where overconsumption is often glamorized.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
10 Oct. 2025
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Safdie makes no effort to glamorize the Kerr’s work, or to insist that there is actually an elegance to what MMA fighters do.—
Richard Lawson,
Rolling Stone,
1 Oct. 2025
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Stamos quickly romanticizes the soldier’s isolation—his freedom from social expectations—and begins to dream of defecting.—
Rachel Vorona Cote,
The Atlantic,
5 Jan. 2026
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There are no talking-head interviews putting addiction into a moral context, nor are there romanticized vagabonds.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Dec. 2025
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Smith grew up idolizing him as a boy in Louisville.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
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The action then jumps seventeen years into the future, where Morgan and Chris’s daughter, Clara (Mckenna Grace), is now a teen-ager who resents her mom’s protectiveness and idolizes her freewheeling aunt.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Glamour (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glamour%20%28up%29. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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