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put on a pedestal





VERB
idealize
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I want to hear from the people that I put on a pedestal that they are hanging on by a thread.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2024

A box with three glass walls has been put on a pedestal in front of the National Palace of Culture in Sofia.

From Reuters ● Apr. 30, 2023

But KSI, real name Olajide Olatunji, tells BBC Newsbeat he has no interest in "being put on a pedestal" like Tate.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2023

And in the beginning, Adena felt like somebody who was all-knowing and somebody Kat put on a pedestal.

From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2021

It is only the Carlyle kind of hero who could ever be put on a pedestal, or who would stay there if put there.

From Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy by Gerald Stanley Lee


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