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as in revered
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as in exalted
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as in elevated
to assign a high status or value to
a number of big names were recruited in the hopes that their presence would glorify the university's school of medicine in the eyes of the medical world
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as in venerated
to offer honor or respect to (someone) as a divine power
let us now glorify the Lord
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as in advertised
to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively
fond parents who glorify everything that their precious offspring do
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as in praised
to proclaim the glory of
the hillsides ablaze in red and gold silently glorify New England in the fall
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as in idealized
to represent or think of as better than reality would warrant
don't let the job title "team spirit coordinator" fool you—he's nothing more than a glorified college cheerleader
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Recent Examples of glorified
Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025
The local newspaper—where Macy was once a paper girl—has been reduced to a glorified pamphlet.
—Grace Byron, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
Billion-time champ Bama has to care about what happens in the Vandy game, which used to be the glorified FCS game!
—Jason Kirk, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Some characters are inevitably short-changed by the two-hour runtime — key elements of companion Inara (Morena Baccarin)'s story were left on the cutting room floor, while the show's moral center, Shepherd Book (Ron Glass), gets nothing more than a glorified cameo.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 30 Sep. 2025
LinkedIn Learning's material largely comes across as a glorified slideshow presentation, and this is especially true for the business content.
—Jill Duffy, PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2026
Lift operators are glorified alpine life guards.
—Corey Buhay, Outside, 5 Dec. 2025
So much more than the lightweight, dinky pieces that are basically glorified dorm fridges, Gougette’s appliances create a miniature wine cave in the kitchen, controlling temperature, humidity, and light.
—Oset Babür-Winter, Bon Appetit Magazine, 17 Nov. 2025
Olmec sculptures often glorified rulers and gods.
—New Atlas, 14 Nov. 2025
Often romanticized and glorified as a triumphant moment in Western histories, Columbus’s travels wreaked havoc in the Caribbean, which became one of the key areas for European expansion and subsequently violent accumulation.
—Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
The reason is much more convoluted, tracing through location, glorified flag football, player payments and Chip Kelly’s dreams.
—Noah White, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
For example, while researching material before making Deep Dive Korea, Jeong felt that the topic of the haenyeo female free divers had been glorified in the media without sufficient context of the suffering and hardship historically associated with the community.
—Sara Merican, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2025
When building a startup, it’s glorified to work 100 hours a week.
—Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 6 Oct. 2025
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Can that work in the big leagues, where the manager is usually a glorified PR staffer who talks to the media and takes the blame (deserved or not) for losses?
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Congress used to debate authorizing such things, but with the GOP House and Senate now reduced to glorified White House staff offices, Trump need not trifle with such annoyances.
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So Jordan’s overhaul challenged both a distinct corporate culture and a revered business model.—
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So revered is the island for its diving that Scuba Diving Magazine has named it the best shore diving destination in the Caribbean for 33 consecutive years.—
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Meanwhile, Mars in Capricorn is operating at an exalted strength, moving forward with discipline, passion and purpose.—
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Lucretia’s lone, cold comfort is to deny Guiteau his exalted place in history, too, most tangibly by ensuring his book is never published.—
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He is elevated, isolated, burdened, deified--positioned as an emblem.—
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When Washington famously refused the power that could have come with such popular esteem, the move only elevated that esteem.—
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Yoji shared that venerated director Akira Kurosawa always said that the camera should never be on stage when shooting a kabuki performance, nor move around to get close to the actors.—
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This is something new in the techno-sphere that for the longest time elevated and venerated the founder/CEO as superstar.—
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That bar had advertised all-inclusive tickets to a New Year’s Eve event, according to a BoiseDev story, but the ad is no longer available on the bar’s website.—
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Cheerios are made from whole-grain oats and often advertised as a heart-healthy breakfast.—
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Special teams coordinator Tracy Smith has also routinely praised Scott’s willingness to do whatever is asked of him.—
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Officials praised the responders and said many of them received specialized water rescue training thanks to a federal grant.—
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Post-Aristotle, infinity was always idealized, never realized — a philosophical construct at best.—
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For most home cooks, a once-a-year turkey is a gastronomic absurdity, needlessly idealized, inevitably formidable to prepare.—
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And fans seem to see these rings as signs that their respective men are worthy partners.—
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Live bootlegs of this tour (like Patriots of the Wasteland or Five Alive) definitely make the case that this lineup had a worthy album in them.—
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“Glorified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glorified. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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