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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
valorize .
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Examples
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By 1722, 60,000 to 70,000 bales of Turkish (Arabian) coffee a year were being received in England, the sale price at Grand Cairo being fixed by the Bashaw, who "valorized" it according to the supply.
All About Coffee 1909
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Putting aside the fact that writers who valorized "sensationalism and sleaze" probably were never looking for the approval of "respectable culture," MB really ought to take a closer look at what academic critics are actually up to these days.
Genre Fiction 2010
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The valorized image of the "man in uniform" becomes all the more important in maintaining the fiction that enlisted Americans, not hired guns who may even be foreign nationals, are helping to carry out our battles.
Andrew Bickford: Shadow Elite : Pat Tillman & Why Soldier Hero Worship Serves the Powerful ... Not the Soldiers Andrew Bickford 2010
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The valorized image of the "man in uniform" becomes all the more important in maintaining the fiction that enlisted Americans, not hired guns who may even be foreign nationals, are helping to carry out our battles.
Andrew Bickford: Shadow Elite: Pat Tillman & Why Soldier Hero Worship Serves the Powerful ... Not the Soldiers Andrew Bickford 2010
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These ideas sanctified violence and valorized killing for Christ as a means to hasten a new world order, and they endure in forms of contemporary Christianity, especially in white supremacist and Neo-Nazi movements.
Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: The Ideological Roots Of Christian Terrorism Rita Nakashima Brock 2011
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Emerging out of a pervasive reality of powerlessness and inequity, political trends in the Arab world have given rise to a belligerent chauvinistic sensibility that has increasingly valorized the Islamic identity and regarded the rest of the world, especially the West, with deep suspicion and hostility.
Ziad J. Asali, M.D.: Honesty and Hypocrisy in Facing Terrorism M.D. Ziad J. Asali 2011
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Emerging out of a pervasive reality of powerlessness and inequity, political trends in the Arab world have given rise to a belligerent chauvinistic sensibility that has increasingly valorized the Islamic identity and regarded the rest of the world, especially the West, with deep suspicion and hostility.
Ziad J. Asali, M.D.: Honesty and Hypocrisy in Facing Terrorism M.D. Ziad J. Asali 2011
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Still, few artists of the intensely intellectual and ideological 1960s have been valorized for sacrificing all for their art to the extent that Smith has.
G. Roger Denson: Jack Smith and the Aesthetics of Camp in an Era of Political Correctness G. Roger Denson 2011
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Emerging out of a pervasive reality of powerlessness and inequity, political trends in the Arab world have given rise to a belligerent chauvinistic sensibility that has increasingly valorized the Islamic identity and regarded the rest of the world, especially the West, with deep suspicion and hostility.
Ziad J. Asali, M.D.: Honesty and Hypocrisy in Facing Terrorism M.D. Ziad J. Asali 2011
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Still, few artists of the intensely intellectual and ideological 1960s have been valorized for sacrificing all for their art to the extent that Smith has.
G. Roger Denson: Jack Smith and the Aesthetics of Camp in an Era of Political Correctness G. Roger Denson 2011
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