Community leaders have had some success in democratizing the organization.
There is internal pressure on the government to democratize.
The magazine's goal is to democratize art.
an effort to democratize politics
Recent Examples on the WebNow, six decades later, Ed Dwight is set to embark on the New Shepard mission, sponsored by the nonprofit Space for Humanity, a nonprofit changing global perspectives by democratizing access to space for all of humanity, with additional support from the Jaison and Jamie Robinson Foundation.—Melissa Noel, Essence, 10 Apr. 2024 But, like other forms of once-premium experiences democratized for and by millennials, they were made available to the masses in 2016 when Chase unveiled its Sapphire Reserve card.—Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2024 As a handful of tech giants further ingrain their products into the AI market, the empowerment of open-source developers will prove vital for keeping costs down, maintaining innovation, and democratizing concerns over privacy, accessibility, etc.—Maria Paula Fernandez, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024 But the true magic of NFTs lies not just in the technology itself, but in its ability to democratize the very essence of art.—Kyle Russell, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2024 Finance was democratized in the form of the world’s first stock exchange, and the leaders of the republic were wise enough to ally themselves with the country’s commercial interests.—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024 They could be made easily from cotton, which also democratized the dish-drying tool and were and were designed with striped or checked cloth.—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2024 Crucially, this process takes the job of captive breeding out of the hands of zoological institutions and democratizes a so-far prohibitively expensive process.—Matthew Ponsford, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2024 Transportation and communications technologies have once again compressed time and space, accelerating and democratizing the spread of information, increasing prosperity, and connecting peoples and economies in previously unfathomable ways.—TIME, 18 Mar. 2024
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Word History
Etymology
borrowed from French démocratiser, from démocratiedemocracy + -iser-ize
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