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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of mythologize.

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Examples

  • Wow, she's following the same path as Reagan by referring to mythologized people such as Reagan used to.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • Ultimately he will regain his mojo, his wife and his audience only when he stands up against the authoritarian state, exhibits some backbone, "not betraying any fear, not revealing any of the dread that was his foremost feeling at the time," "mythologized" by the ubiquitous news footage, showing him seeming

    Brit Lit Blogs Asylum 2010

  • Ms. Thomson's argument is that Gauguin choreographed his own career; that because of his "self-promotional urge," he "mythologized his role as creator."

    Tate Modern Exhibition Makes a Fresh Case for Gauguin Paul Levy 2010

  • Only of course, Nénette emerges as a kind of tabula rasa...a moving confrontation with the fool on the hill, about which Society has long mythologized, both envying, pitying -- and thus, condemning -- her/him.

    Michael Vazquez: On Nénette Michael Vazquez 2011

  • Were it not for this high-value target, it might have been a routine mission for the specially trained and highly mythologized SEAL Team Six, officially called the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, but known even to the locals at their home base Dam Neck in Virginia as just DevGru ...

    HUFFPOST HILL - bin Laden Playing Checkers With Hitler Eliot Nelson 2011

  • We tend to stereotype people and things based on the thing they did best or even sometimes based upon something that's not true about them at all but because their lives were borrowed and mythologized they have become something they are not e.g., think the hollywood tabloids.

    George Elerick: The End Of Christianity George Elerick 2011

  • He reflexively thinks of himself and those around him in terms of literary characters and mythologized historical figures.

    Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall," reviewed by Ron Charles Ron Charles 2010

  • Only of course, Nénette emerges as a kind of tabula rasa...a moving confrontation with the fool on the hill, about which Society has long mythologized, both envying, pitying -- and thus, condemning -- her/him.

    Michael Vazquez: On Nénette Michael Vazquez 2011

  • He reflexively thinks of himself and those around him in terms of literary characters and mythologized historical figures.

    Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall," reviewed by Ron Charles Ron Charles 2010

  • We tend to stereotype people and things based on the thing they did best or even sometimes based upon something that's not true about them at all but because their lives were borrowed and mythologized they have become something they are not e.g., think the hollywood tabloids.

    George Elerick: The End Of Christianity George Elerick 2011

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