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
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While the Jacksonian program helped produce a massive depression, the Jacksonians’ intention was to accelerate capitalism by democratizing it, not to tame it by subjecting it to government planning.—Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026 This would further democratize our energy systems and advance Maryland’s energy independence.—Calvin Ball, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2026 Answering questions is democratized.—Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026 By Yazhou Sun, Bloomberg One of OpenAI’s top executives defended the company’s addition of ads to its popular chatbot ChatGPT as a way to democratize access to artificial intelligence.—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for democratize
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borrowed from French démocratiser, from démocratiedemocracy + -iser-ize