as in to glamourize
to represent or think of as better than reality would warrant
a movie that does its best to glamour up the field of archaeology
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Only idealized systems that involve infinity—an infinitely long tape, an infinitely extensive grid of particles, an infinitely divisible space for placing pinballs and rubber ducks—can be truly undecidable.—
Charlie Wood,
Wired News,
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And these heroes, slightly idealized but by no means infallible versions of the ones who exist in real hospitals, keep showing up, shift after endless shift, to keep pushing that rock up the hill.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
11 Apr. 2025
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“Glamour (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glamour%20%28up%29. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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