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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mythicize .
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Examples
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Said Jesus' story was embellished and "mythicized" by many semi-fiction writers.
CNN.com 2011
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Said Jesus' story was embellished and "mythicized" by many semi-fiction writers.
CNN.com 2010
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Said Jesus' story was embellished and "mythicized" by many local semi-fiction writers.
CNN.com 2010
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Ronald Reagan: Reagan is the most mythicized president since John F. Kennedy.
Byron Williams: Accomplishments of Recent Presidents Worth Remembering Byron Williams 2011
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Ronald Reagan: Reagan is the most mythicized president since John F. Kennedy.
Byron Williams: Accomplishments of Recent Presidents Worth Remembering Byron Williams 2011
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But Mr. Evison is optimistically intent on showing how the ordinary present actually differs little from the mythicized past in its dreams and false starts, and how both eras are linked by the possibility of rebirth through adventure.
First the Settlers, Then the Settled Sam Sacks 2011
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I understand the conceptual difference between a mythical person and a mythicized person.
Mythicists and Creationists James F. McGrath 2009
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We have here no mythicized version of a real journey but a voyage of the imagination.
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Charles Eliot 1896
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Quite the existential crisis for adherents to historical accuracy, especially during the mythicized tales we envision telling our kids.
Merry Swankster 2008
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"As antagonism deepens between themes which are the expression of reality, there is a tendency for the themes and for reality to be mythicized, establishing a climate of irrationality and sectarianism ...
Address at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs 2000
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