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to represent or think of as better than reality would warrant
he had a tendency to idealize his heroes and believe they could do no wrong
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Recent Examples of idealized
Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
For their part, many voters always seem to be searching for some idealized candidate who exists only in their imagination.
—Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2026
And yet many of the technology-use examples Vahia offered seemed somewhat idealized.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
The pressure to present an idealized life can blur the line between reality and performance.
—Sherri Gordon, Parents, 20 Dec. 2025
McNally and Carter have already done more than most to refashion the city into their idealized image of it, as their best-selling memoirs reminded us this year.
—The Editors, Curbed, 15 Dec. 2025
The beauty lies in the curation process itself, carefully selecting each building, figurine, and accessory to craft your own version of an idealized Christmas town.
—Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 11 Dec. 2025
In this Water sign, the taskmaster will expose emotional or spiritual fatigue, which asks us to build something honest and enduring rather than idealized and faulty.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 8 Dec. 2025
The findings suggest that such slab-like star-forming environments may be far more common than the idealized, spherical gas clouds often used in models, researchers say.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 21 Nov. 2025
Big Think, 25 Nov. 2025
For most home cooks, a once-a-year turkey is a gastronomic absurdity, needlessly idealized, inevitably formidable to prepare.
—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Pop culture can even play a powerful role in shaping the nation’s perception of higher education–Hollywood still leaning heavily on images of pristine lawns, students in caps and gowns, and idealized lecture halls.
—Yolanda Watson Spiva, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2025
This clearly suggests that idealized online self-presentation can inflate social impressions but may create disappointment when offline reality does not match expectations.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
These values were generally shared by his employers at Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets, organisations idealized as the polar opposite of Emperor Palpatine's authoritarian dictatorship from a galaxy far, far away.
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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For their part, many voters always seem to be searching for some idealized candidate who exists only in their imagination.
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Post-Aristotle, infinity was always idealized, never realized — a philosophical construct at best.
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In a new retelling of the Robin Hood legend, the Wolverine alum turns the romanticized folklore character on his head with an all-new older character and appearance.—
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The fourth cycle, Scotland, is wonderfully atmospheric, filled with suspense and romanticized landscapes.—
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Her polished fashion sense, marked by sophisticated, minimalist pieces and a neutral color palette, has been idolized even decades after her death.—
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Kiffin idolized Spurrier growing up.—
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Stripped to their symbolic essence, the erotics of Frankenstein are about the body as meat, electrified by carnal pleasure and unencumbered by the soul.—
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Russian forces appear to be on the brink of finally seizing the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, a symbolic victory that President Vladimir Putin has been pursuing for 21 months at an increasingly heavy cost.—
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Often, fires are depicted in an overly dramatic or glamorized way, but each home represents a person’s life.—
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My journey will be publicized and glamorized, but my evolution process is sacred to me.—
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Plants with hollow stems, like purple flowering raspberry and Joe Pye weed.—
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These performances showcased many a beaded sheath dress, like the purple number seen above.—
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Add bell pepper, onion, scallions; cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 4 minutes.—
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But that’s also true of every Democrat who won on Tuesday — including Mamdani himself, who has softened some of his stances on policing including past calls to defund the NYPD and build no new jails.—
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“Idealized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/idealized. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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