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- verb Present participle of
lionize .
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Examples
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That, I'm told, will be an effort to canvass outside screenings of "Waiting for Superman," the new documentary lionizing Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, at the E Street Cinema downtown.
Fenty write-in campaign isn't going away Mike DeBonis 2010
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Why doesn't Dick Cheney see the clear and present danger presented by a political group lionizing a Chinese drink to our American way of life?
Weak tea: GOP conservative suggests the Tea Party may be a Chinese knockoff 2010
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I'm sure they're out there, somewhere - but just look, for comparisons sake, how much keyboard time is spent lionizing relatively bad comics such as the Mod-era Wonder Woman and Bob Haney's The Brave and the Bold.
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I fear that by lionizing in perpetuity corporate icons one comes close to admitting the 'end of empire' syndrome and suddenly we are celebrating Queens Victoria's Diamond Jubilee of 1897 forever.
Mike Ragogna: Glen Campbell's "Ghost On The Canvas" Video, Plus Chatting with Miles Español's Bob Belden Mike Ragogna 2011
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Those damn Republicans, always lionizing the whitest places possible! ron Says:
Matthew Yglesias » Jeb Bush Says We Could Learn From Swedish Schools 2009
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Fewer things are more ridiculous than lionizing the thuggish manufacturing subcontractors that litter the landscape of the global south.
Matthew Yglesias » Sherri Berman: Progressives Must Believe in Change 2009
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What's amazing is that even the Liberal In Name Only New York Times is lionizing Reagan -- is this selective memory driven by fears that conservative readers might cancel their subscriptions if they did otherwise?
Jane White: Reagan's True Legacy: Terminating the American Dream Jane White 2011
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Forget that this was the hyperbole country of talk radio; forget that Pippen used the equivocal "may;" forget that a Bulls Kremlinologist would argue that Pippen was actually needling his canonized teammate "greatest scorer" has the whiff of faint praise more than he was lionizing a newcomer.
No Use Denying the LeBrilliance Anymore Jason Gay 2011
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"If he'd achieved the same results in the opposite order, people would be lionizing him now," says Christopher Davis , chairman of Davis Advisors and a friend and competitor of Mr. Miller's.
The Long Climb and Steep Descent of Legg Mason's Top Stock Picker Jason Zweig 2011
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I fear that by lionizing in perpetuity corporate icons one comes close to admitting the 'end of empire' syndrome and suddenly we are celebrating Queens Victoria's Diamond Jubilee of 1897 forever.
Mike Ragogna: Glen Campbell's "Ghost On The Canvas" Video, Plus Chatting with Miles Español's Bob Belden Mike Ragogna 2011
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