mythologize
verb
my·thol·o·gize
mi-ˈthä-lə-ˌjīz 
mythologized; mythologizing
1
obsolete
: to explain the mythological significance of
2
: to build a myth around : mythicize
mythologizer
noun
Examples of mythologize in a Sentence
a politician who has been mythologized by his supporters
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In the recent Saturday Night movie, which mythologizes the series’ turbulent birth, Gabrielle LaBelle (playing a young Michaels) gives a speech about how SNL should feel like a wild night out in the city, all jazz and revelry.
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Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2024
All sports like to mythologize themselves, but baseball—this young country’s oldest game—might have one of the most powerful and pernicious mythmaking apparatuses of all.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2024
Stagecraft and the power of political photographs With the invention of photography came a new way to view, mythologize and remember the nation's presidents.
—David Morgan, CBS News, 1 Nov. 2024
King, widely mythologized today, was viewed unfavorably by more than two-thirds of Americans in 1966.
—Samantha Eyler, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2017
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Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 11 Nov. 2024
All sports like to mythologize themselves, but baseball—this young country’s oldest game—might have one of the most powerful and pernicious mythmaking apparatuses of all.
—Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2024
Stagecraft and the power of political photographs With the invention of photography came a new way to view, mythologize and remember the nation's presidents.
—David Morgan, CBS News, 1 Nov. 2024
King, widely mythologized today, was viewed unfavorably by more than two-thirds of Americans in 1966.
—Samantha Eyler, Foreign Affairs, 31 Jan. 2017
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“Mythologize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mythologize. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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