lionization

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Her status as a mysterious, cloistered figure had been solidified after a decade of speculation and lionization on Internet message boards and blogs as crate diggers shared rips of her impossibly rare LPs.

From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2021

But a good deal of history gets lost in the lionization.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2020

Image: Wikipedia If there’s a dark side to the film’s idealism, it’s General Magic’s lionization of punishing development crunch times.

From The Verge • Apr. 22, 2018

The major beneficiary of this nutritional lionization has been John Yudkin, a prominent British nutritionist who declared sugar to be Pure, White and Deadly in 1972 in a widely read popular book.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2018

Then came the news of Speke's return and lionization in London.

From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Wright, Thomas