radicalize
verb
rad·i·cal·ize
ˈra-di-kə-ˌlīz 
radicalized; radicalizing
: to make radical especially in politics
Examples of radicalize in a Sentence
The war has radicalized an entire generation of young people.
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McVeigh was a Gulf War veteran who had become radicalized by anti-government beliefs and hoped to inspire a revolution against the federal government with the bombing.
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Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 18 Apr. 2025
Respectfully, how are Daniel and BB friends, like this guy is being radicalized before our very eyes?
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 9 Apr. 2025
Facebook’s algorithms, meanwhile, have been radicalizing Americans for at least a decade, and Instagram’s algorithmic feed is wrecking the mental health of an entire generation.
—Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 20 Mar. 2025
Twenty years later, however, nearly a third of American extremists were radicalized via social media feeds, and by 2016 that proportion had risen to about three quarters.
—Harvey Whitehouse, WIRED, 23 Jan. 2025
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Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 18 Apr. 2025
Respectfully, how are Daniel and BB friends, like this guy is being radicalized before our very eyes?
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 9 Apr. 2025
Facebook’s algorithms, meanwhile, have been radicalizing Americans for at least a decade, and Instagram’s algorithmic feed is wrecking the mental health of an entire generation.
—Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 20 Mar. 2025
Twenty years later, however, nearly a third of American extremists were radicalized via social media feeds, and by 2016 that proportion had risen to about three quarters.
—Harvey Whitehouse, WIRED, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Radicalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/radicalize. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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