idolization
Example Sentences
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A film like “Maddie’s Secret” accurately portrays idolization and enabling with as much horror as it should.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
Still, defectors often say the hardest thing about transitioning to the outside world is shedding their idolization of Kim.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
Even having them in museums will still evoke a type of idolization.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2022
There’s this idolization that happens in Silicon Valley, but I think for 90 percent of the founders, it was just luck.
From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2021
Cooksey “brought a certain idolization of Lawrence into the laboratory,” Livingston observed more than thirty years after his departure.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
