idolization

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Recent Examples of idolization But even more clear to me this go-around was that Bella's idolization of Edward comes from a horrifyingly insecure place. USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for idolization
Noun
  • Markowicz told BridgeDetroit that the organization has started engaging with the community partners, cultural institutions, small businesses and places of worship that regularly participate in the festival.
    Micah Walker, Freep.com, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Trent Stewart was the pastor at The Log Church in Waverly, where Sunday school and worship were canceled this weekend and replaced with a time of prayer in the sanctuary, the church's associate pastor, Charlie Musick, posted on social media.
    Greg Norman, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Li described herself as having a lifelong suspicion of all forms of emotional melodrama, stemming from her experience as a child in China listening to propagandist operas, in which singers made extravagant claims of adoration and allegiance.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
  • From his many, many jobs to his love and adoration of his mother, Kirk was one of a kind.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Propping up these anti-artists promotes a kind of false idolatry; undiscerning listeners read their banal backstories and watch their flashy videos and soon become active devotees.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 2 Oct. 2025
  • These all may be interpreted as acts of idolatry.
    Michael Isaacson, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Destroy this death worshipping, terroristic cult.
    Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Hank Hill — stiff, sincere, propane-worshipping — wasn’t a joke.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Putin was portrayed as an unsightly troll, who, by an act of magic—a spell cast by the puppet version of Boris Berezovsky, the magnate who helped engineer his rise to the Presidency—comes to appear beautiful and virtuous, the subject of great adulation and deference.
    Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Irwin politely refused to accept Tonioli and Hough's adulations, crediting it all to his partner.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Thus, the project traces the societal implications of the deification of physical beauty, and how the international plastic surgery industry promotes these oppressive standards.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The mountain has been widely used by the Kim dynasty to showcase the family’s own lore and deification.
    Will Ripley, CNN Money, 28 July 2025

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“Idolization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/idolization. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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