idealize
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Historian Quinn Slobodian joins Felix Salmon to discuss the tech billionaires who idealize a world without democracy.
From Slate • Feb. 4, 2025
I know “quiet” is loaded — a synonym for normalcy, or what we idealize as normal.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2023
“It’s far too easy to idealize one party and villainize another. It’s not the case that every off-road vehicle user is a bad guy, and not every environmentalist is automatically virtuous.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2022
Haynes respects the art too much to idealize the artists, or to impose retrospective harmony on their dissonances.
From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2021
Not much to idealize when you know your aunt is crying herself to sleep next door and nothing can be done.
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
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