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  • adjective US Regarded as ideal.
  • adjective US Considered as an ideal form of something.
  • adjective Alternative spelling of idealised.
  • verb US Simple past tense and past participle of idealize.
  • verb Alternative spelling of idealised.

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  • adjective exalted to an ideal perfection or excellence

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Examples

  • Moved by what he called "idealized illustrations of Hawaii from the '50s, postcards and Hawaiian shirts," Parisian Joseph Altuzarra sent digital tropical prints down his spring runway against a backdrop of live palm-frond foliage, while Suno, a house that usually sets its compass to Africa where many of its batik fabrics are made, was also taken with alohawear.

    Endless Summer 2012

  • Anyway, the, uh, the premise: man meets woman in idealized, dream-like Switzerland, they fall in love, have kids, and then all of them die.

    Another 10 Movies to Watch Stoned/High » Scene-Stealers 2010

  • Also adds in idealized, implied consent: we must have consented to those beginnings through a constitution, a marriage contract, an employment relationship, or the like.

    WIPIP at Seton Hall part 3 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • Novels may allow us to live vicariously in idealized societies, or they may encourage us to acquire socially beneficial traits. — “Hierarchy in the Library: Egalitarian Dynamics in Victorian Novels,” Evolutionary Psychology

    Quick Study 2009

  • Obtaining value and creating value are only synonymous in idealized economies, not real ones.

    Matthew Yglesias » Congress Is Very Important 2010

  • As Larsen-Freeman and Cameron comment, “In order to address their goal, many lingustis have sought to represent the language system in idealized elegance, often stripped of the disorderliness of what had been called the noisy ‘remainder’ … To do so, they have had to make certain concessions that do not cohere well with the demands of applied linguistics”.

    X is for X-bar Theory « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • Novels may allow us to live vicariously in idealized societies, or they may encourage us to acquire socially beneficial traits. — “Hierarchy in the Library: Egalitarian Dynamics in Victorian Novels,” Evolutionary Psychology

    Quick Study 2009

  • Also adds in idealized, implied consent: we must have consented to those beginnings through a constitution, a marriage contract, an employment relationship, or the like.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • The point of chaos theory is that deterministic predictions are not possible even in idealized situations. close window

    Plotnitsky, Notes 2001

  • There is one great beauty in idealized romance: reading it can make no one worse than he is, while it may help thousands to a cleaner life and higher inspiration than they ever before have known.

    Gene Stratton-Porter: A Little Story of The Life and Work and Ideals of "The Bird Woman" 1926

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