"protagonize" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2018, Jennifer Markides, Laura Forsythe, Looking Back and Living Forward: Indigenous Research Rising Up, page 41:",
          "text": "Our project should be to protagonize ourselves, and yet, that project presents certain problems.",
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          "ref": "2020, Randal Joy Thompson, Proleptic Leadership on the Commons, page 75:",
          "text": "Self-protagonizing does not mean putting self first, nor maximizing self-gain. Rather, it expresses a certain sense of freedom […]",
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        "To set up as the protagonist, or most significant character or entity."
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        "(transitive) To set up as the protagonist, or most significant character or entity."
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          "ref": "2019 October 14, María Soledad Paz-Mackay, Omar Rodriguez, Politics of Children in Latin American Cinema, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 177:",
          "text": "For the sake of convenience, the name “Ernesto [Guevara]” will refer to the young medical student who protagonizes The Motorcycle Diaries (henceforth, Motorcycle Diaries).",
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        "To be the protagonist, or most significant character or entity (of a literary work, etc.)."
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        "(transitive) To be the protagonist, or most significant character or entity (of a literary work, etc.)."
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        "(transitive) To set up as the protagonist, or most significant character or entity."
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