idolization

Example Sentences

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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

I drew on my idolization of my sister who was the coolest, punkest person ever.

From Salon • May 1, 2023

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