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There’s also a whole bit in the courtroom of David swatting at a fly as his attorney attempts to lionize him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2024

But I am not among your favorite legal commentators, and, as you've probably guessed from the title, I am not here to lionize Justice O'Connor.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2023

Mr. Ostin’s unflagging support for artists led them to lionize him.

From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2022

“There is a prevailing narrative in the public mind to sort of lionize certain weapons systems as having a defining impact on certain conflicts,” he said, but “the reality is often more complex.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2022

"Of course, most of her social friends are away—in July; but Billy is never a society girl, you know, in spite of the way Society is always trying to lionize her and Bertram."

From Miss Billy — Married by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

As Greenspan left office in 2005, Greenspan was lionized as the “maestro,” or the greatest central banker of the century.

From MarketWatch ● May 10, 2026

Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, murdered by the SS before he could be freed by Allied troops, is lionized in American churches, and his letters from prison became standard reading in Bible studies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

In death, however, Carter is being lionized by Republican leaders as well as Democrats upon his return to Washington to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda before his state funeral Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025

The alleged villains in the trial are former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, who once was lionized as shining example of British ingenuity, and Stephen Chamberlain, Autonomy’s former vice president of finance.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2024

And though it's clear to anyone with an ounce of logic that they are a pack of charlatans, they're lionized throughout the Empire not just as immortal, but as oracles and mind-readers.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

Decades of lionizing men like Nile Jarvis have made his detestable personality not just easy to spot, but queasily appealing.

From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2025

But writer-director Todd Komarnicki’s aggressively lionizing, faith-driven movie about Bonhoeffer seems uninterested in any complexity about pacifism and violence coexisting in one man.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024

“I think society has just stopped lionizing this kind of guy.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2023

Already she’s spent many episodes analyzing, and lionizing, the show’s newest cast member.

From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2021

All the preceding was written four days ago: cut short by the sudden entrance of Moore, whom I have been lionizing ever since. 

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by William Aldis Wright