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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The rise of online coaching has democratized the availability of personalized advice from expert mentors, not just in running but across endurance sports and even in other areas of life like business and entrepreneurship.—Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 22 Mar. 2026 The vast majority of those who turn to self-representation do so purely out of need; that a new technology could serve as a democratizing force within the legal world, legal access advocates urge, is essential terrain to explore.—Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 18 Mar. 2026 Robinhood, which was founded on the idea of democratizing access to investing, has always played on the popular resentment of wealthy investor-insider types who might be partying on yachts with Tenev today.—Julia Black, Vanity Fair, 17 Mar. 2026 This would seem to challenge the notion that AI usurping human skills will democratize them—for instance, by broadening who is able to contribute meaningfully to math’s advancement.—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 16 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for democratize
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from French démocratiser, from démocratiedemocracy + -iser-ize