as in to soften
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Recent Examples of poeticize
The internet certainly doesn’t poeticize it for me.
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Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 29 Aug. 2019
Santo Loquasto's set doesn't poeticize the ambience.
—Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 10 May 2018
Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 29 Aug. 2019
Santo Loquasto's set doesn't poeticize the ambience.
—Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 10 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for poeticize
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The reading brought a sigh of relief, easing concerns that the economy was facing a double whammy of a softening labor market with reaccelerating inflation.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
24 Oct. 2025
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Weekly cattle and wholesale prices softened from daily highs set in late August but remained historically elevated.—
Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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Feeling some heat from next door, New York sweetened its incentive package in its latest budget earlier this year.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
28 Oct. 2025
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The cocktail comes to us, like so many greats, from Hugo Ensslin’s 1916 Recipes for Mixed Drinks and the recipe most of us use is more or less the same as his—a healthy pour of Irish whiskey, with lime juice and some grenadine (pomegranate syrup) to sweeten.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
25 Oct. 2025
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Those words euphemize a cascade of traumas that have befallen higher education since Inauguration Day.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
27 Feb. 2025
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Later, their sad parts were endlessly euphemized until they could be mistaken for happy endings.—
Harmony Holiday,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Apr. 2023
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Often romanticized and glorified as a triumphant moment in Western histories, Columbus’s travels wreaked havoc in the Caribbean, which became one of the key areas for European expansion and subsequently violent accumulation.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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With Venus, your ruling planet, also in Libra, this is your chance to romanticize your wellness.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Poeticize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poeticize. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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