valorize
verb
val·o·rize
ˈva-lə-ˌrīz 
valorized; valorizing
1
: to enhance or try to enhance the price, value, or status of by organized and usually governmental action
using subsidies to valorize coffee
2
: to assign value or merit to : validate
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At home, the atmosphere was decorous, curious, gentle; outside, the culture of the nineteen-fifties was tougher, valorizing war and papering over a darker, more furtive kind of violence.
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Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
Shooting in stunning Technicolor in his favorite location, Utah’s Monument Valley, Ford fills the film with lyrical passages while valorizing a soldier whose primary concern is preventing bloodshed rather than facilitating it.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2024
Mangione, 26, has since been charged with second-degree murder in New York, among other crimes, and has been valorized as a folk hero in many corners of the internet, though the killing of Thompson, 50, has also been widely condemned.
—Miranda Kennedy, Vox, 10 Dec. 2024
At these events, Putin prominently valorized living veterans as role models for contemporary Russian citizens.
—Ronald R. Krebs, Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
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Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
Shooting in stunning Technicolor in his favorite location, Utah’s Monument Valley, Ford fills the film with lyrical passages while valorizing a soldier whose primary concern is preventing bloodshed rather than facilitating it.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2024
Mangione, 26, has since been charged with second-degree murder in New York, among other crimes, and has been valorized as a folk hero in many corners of the internet, though the killing of Thompson, 50, has also been widely condemned.
—Miranda Kennedy, Vox, 10 Dec. 2024
At these events, Putin prominently valorized living veterans as role models for contemporary Russian citizens.
—Ronald R. Krebs, Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
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“Valorize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/valorize. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.
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