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  • verb Present participle of valorize.

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Examples

  • Cornell's renewed suicide prevention efforts include a massive mental health campaign targeting students as well as the staff, faculty, and families who talk to them; avoiding "valorizing" recent deaths; and stationing guards on all bridges that cross gorges.

    Gawker Maureen O'Connor 2010

  • But I can't agree that it has done so by valorizing metafiction.

    Comedy in Literature 2010

  • If fiction is reality and life a fiction, then Federman is paradoxically valorizing realism after all, though not for "recreating" reality.

    Experimental Fiction 2010

  • If fiction is reality and life a fiction, then Federman is paradoxically valorizing realism after all, though not for "recreating" reality.

    Performing Its Own Self 2010

  • The valorizing of your own group and the devaluing of those outside it undoubtedly couldn’t be more human.

    Tom Engelhardt: In the Crosshairs: Tucson-Kabul Tom Engelhardt 2011

  • If fiction is reality and life a fiction, then Federman is paradoxically valorizing realism after all, though not for "recreating" reality.

    January 2010 2010

  • I am not valorizing (to use a Matthew-ism) “choice”.

    Matthew Yglesias » In Praise of Short Menus 2010

  • The valorizing of your own group and the devaluing of those outside it undoubtedly couldn’t be more human.

    Tom Engelhardt: In the Crosshairs: Tucson-Kabul Tom Engelhardt 2011

  • I am not valorizing (to use a Matthew-ism) “choice”

    Matthew Yglesias » In Praise of Short Menus 2010

  • The valorizing of your own group and the devaluing of those outside it undoubtedly couldn’t be more human.

    Tom Engelhardt: In the Crosshairs: Tucson-Kabul Tom Engelhardt 2011

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