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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

They like the stories that either demonize or lionize these people.

From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2023

Teams are insular, us-against-the-world micro-communities, and American culture tends to lionize those who close off the rest of the world, ignore criticism and win anyway.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2023

Glew himself, importantly, is never the target of the joke: the movie has too much affection for its subject to ridicule his eccentricities, even gently, preferring to lionize him instead.

From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2022

Two women tried to lionize him, and he ran away and played with the children.

From Lion and the Unicorn by Davis, Richard Harding

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

Teachers may be lionized by Hollywood, but in practice they’re underpaid, overworked and disrespected.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2024

In the late 1960s and 1970s, the left-wing counterculture lionized outlaws like the Hells Angels for their rebellion against a hated establishment.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2023

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

But much more often, it’s simply a necessity — one that’s erased when lionizing the chill moms and the wild summers.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026

Los Angeles educators were also directed to immediately shift from lionizing Chávez to honoring instead the farmworkers’ movement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026

Scientists, the press and the public alike tend to tell and retell these success stories, lionizing intrepid researchers.

From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

Stop lionizing him and his ilk, and instead cover people who are responding productively.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022

Meanwhile the I.G. declined any share in the lionizing, and slipped off to enjoy a quiet holiday in Ireland.

From Sir Robert Hart The Romance of a Great Career, 2nd Edition by Bredon, Juliet