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the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax

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apotheosis
apotheosizes
apotheosized
apotheosize



a playwright whose best works apotheosize the platitude

—p.115 Ionesco (115) by Susan Sontag
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formalized the apotheosis of McInerney in a gushy cover story

on the Village Voice and the Brat Pack

—p.38 Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young (37) by David Foster Wallace
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The apotheosis of this technique is "The Depressed Person."

on recursion

—p.274 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: The Difficult Gifts of David Foster Wallace (255) by Zadie Smith
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Proust was not implying that painting had reached its apotheosis in Impressionism

—p.112 How to Be a Good Friend (105) by Alain de Botton
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the modulation between apotheosis and disappearance

—p.8 Introduction (1) by Matthew Fuller
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a liberal preference for 'recognition of diversity over economic inequality' reached its most absurd apotheosis with a politics based on the minutia and gradations of rapidly proliferating identities

I think minutia is [sic] but, unsure

—p.69 Chapter Five: From Tumblr to the campus wars: creating scarcity in an online economy of virtue (68) by Angela Nagle
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Kerensky’s status as ‘minister-cum-democrat’, straddling government and Soviet, was more than mere addition, more even than synthesis. It was apotheosis.

—p.92 March: 'In So Far As' (66) by China Miéville
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she apotheosizes experience at at time when she was in search of all the experiences she had missed

—p.192 Susan Sontag's Seriousness (181) by Adam Kirsch
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he New Yorker—the apotheosis of culture industry liberalism

—p.45 Dispatches from the American Gray Zone (38) by Jonathon Sturgeon
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He reimagined the conservative opposition to liberal individualism through an apotheosis of man and machinery

on Ernst Junger

—p.110 Send Anarchists, Guns, and Money (104) by Jacob Siegel
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destined for hegemonic domination and financial apotheosis

—p.22 Chapter 1: Once in a Lifetime (7) by Richard Dienst
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a kind of ultimate apotheosis of the excremental

—p.56 by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Moral disintegration is connected to military apotheosis.

—p.19 Crackpot Realism: Fiction for the Forthcoming Millenium (13) by Melvin Jules Bukiet
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it can reach its apotheosis in a crowd

on loneliness

—p.4 by Olivia Laing
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The movement reached its apotheosis in November 2006 at the Microcredit Summit in Halifax, Canada

—p.10 The Power of a Dollar (9) by Milford Bateman
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Three years earlier his second wife, Eva Perón, a former actress and an impassioned champion of the working class, had succumbed to cancer and been apotheosized as a martyr of the laboring poor.

—p.62 Argentinidad (53) by Benjamin Kunkel
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WorryFree, an apotheosis of the gig economy, offers room and board

—p.125 White Voice (113) by Dan Sinykin
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the story of design thinking as such—and of how design reached its apotheosis as a floating signifier, detached from any one object or medium or output—starts with World War II

—p.193 On design thinking (190) by Maggie Gram
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