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idolize

verb as in think of very highly; worship

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That was before he stood on a balcony in Wales, 15 years ago, and looked below to a mass of idolizing golf fans, begging to be sprayed with champagne.

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The only way to achieve success is through exploitation and destruction, and everyone we idolize figured that out a long time ago.

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He loved the movies and idolized Gary Cooper and James Dean.

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Segel: It’s a really nice thing to have people who you admire and respect, idolize, come in and say that they love the show.

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If “Dawson’s Creek” was a mirror of Williamson’s starry-eyed years spent idolizing Steven Spielberg and dreaming of making it out of his small town, “The Waterfront” tells a murkier chapter of his family history.

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