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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

I believe they'd lionize Charley Chaplin if he'd let them, but I understand he's more exclusive than we are.

From Black Oxen by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Stubborn, single-minded and tireless, lionized and controversial, the Los Angeles water boss was 72.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

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

Outstanding oarsmen were lionized in the national press, even in the era of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Joe DiMaggio.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

Things get messy when we start lionizing anyone, perhaps especially young men who were just good at playing a child’s game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2024

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

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022

Already she’s spent many episodes analyzing, and lionizing, the show’s newest cast member.

From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2021

But the captain and the ship's doctor cut short any attempt at lionizing by rushing the midshipmen to a stateroom containing three berths.

From Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis Or, Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters" by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock