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(transitive) To transform (a person or concept) into a celebrity; to make famous..
Its failure to politicize celebrity, as well as to celebritize politics, caused the nascent group to founder in its early days.
Everyone is required to sit for new headshots, to write exhaustively and shamelessly about themselves, to collect links to their TV clips and old articles, their author pages and personal websites, all this content shoveled onto the heaping pile of the magazine's redesigned website, trying to make personalities out of staff, to celebritize themselves, puffing out their chests to appear more relevant, less shut-down-able.
Use celebritize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Celebritize means (transitive) To transform (a person or concept) into a celebrity; to make famous..
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Its failure to politicize celebrity, as well as to celebritize politics, caused the nascent group to founder in its early days.
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