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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lionise.

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Examples

  • If tragedy in part offers the passive you the spectacle of an active him destroyed for his crime of action, tacitly warning against agency and validating disengagement, it also lionises the agent for their agency.

    The Epic and the Past Hal Duncan 2008

  • If tragedy in part offers the passive you the spectacle of an active him destroyed for his crime of action, tacitly warning against agency and validating disengagement, it also lionises the agent for their agency.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • Rate It al-Zawraa TV, is a 24-hour satellite station that lionises Iraq's insurgency to the drumbeat of Saddam-era martial music.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Insurgent TV channel turns into Iraq's newest cult hit 2007

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    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Insurgent TV channel turns into Iraq's newest cult hit 2007

  • Indeed, the relationship was under far more pressure in the immediate post-war years - the time the press lionises as a honeymoon phase, when Winston Churchill first praised "the special relationship".

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Determined to see a strong Indian security apparatus flex its muscle, the Indian media lionises 'encounter specialists' - police who specialise in shootouts.

    unknown title 2009

  • And her party, which still lionises her, recently voted in favour of a Government Bill to ban the creation of any more.

    Spectator Live 2009

  • His consideration of the Armenian genocide, which highlights Woodrow Wilson's inaction, cautiously lionises Theodore Roosevelt, who, it seemed, wanted to invade half the countries on earth.

    Latest Articles 2008

  • To counter criticism that the film lionises the charismatic gang members while ignoring their victims, the director, Udi Edel, said he positioned the cameras so they would tell the story from the eye level of the victims.

    The Guardian World News 2008

  • To counter criticism that the film lionises the charismatic gang members while ignoring their victims, the director, Udi Edel, said he positioned the cameras so they would tell the story from the eye level of the victims.

    Film | guardian.co.uk 2008

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