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Recent Examples of democratize
All the major opposition parties are united on the need to spike Netanyahu’s authoritarianism and to democratize the draft.
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Bernard Avishai, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
Museveni first took power by force in 1986 as the leader of a guerrilla force whose goal was to democratize Uganda after years of chaos and civil war.
—Rodney Muhumuza, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
Founded to democratize access to resources from the modern film industry, Decentralized Pictures has already awarded more than $1 million in grants and support to indie filmmakers.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026
Western pundits, policymakers and scholars believed that China’s economic growth would democratize the autocratic country.
—Michelle Kuo, The Dial, 14 Apr. 2026
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Bernard Avishai, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
Museveni first took power by force in 1986 as the leader of a guerrilla force whose goal was to democratize Uganda after years of chaos and civil war.
—Rodney Muhumuza, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
Founded to democratize access to resources from the modern film industry, Decentralized Pictures has already awarded more than $1 million in grants and support to indie filmmakers.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026
Western pundits, policymakers and scholars believed that China’s economic growth would democratize the autocratic country.
—Michelle Kuo, The Dial, 14 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for democratize
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This also will help provide transparency needed to guide infrastructure investment and scale recycling technologies, while also standardizing shared definitions, material taxonomies and reporting to ensure industry-wide compliance.—
Jennifer Bringle,
Footwear News,
3 June 2026
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Residency programs are guided by a set of core competencies intended to standardize assessment across training environments.—
Vanessa Grubbs,
STAT,
1 June 2026
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Peris anticipated that as interest rates normalized, dividends would increase.—
Michelle Fox,
CNBC,
3 June 2026
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The league has normalized anti-White bigotry both on the court and in the media.—
Bobby Burack OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
3 June 2026
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She was driven by the desire to connect all human experience with a set of universal truths and constants, a goal that could both equalize and erase.—
Eliza Goodpasture,
ARTnews.com,
3 June 2026
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If your windows fog up frequently, switching your AC from recirculate mode to fresh air mode can help equalize humidity levels.—
Jessica Safavimehr,
Southern Living,
28 May 2026
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This is not the first time Spain has opted to regularize its undocumented population.—
Marta Campabadal Graus,
NBC news,
30 May 2026
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By that time, Cuba and Argentina were the only two formal members, apart from Venezuela, that had regularized their financial situation (investment on shares) at the board of teleSUR (in December 2011 and May 2012, respectively).—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
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Mazzone’s idea wasn’t to homogenize his portfolio of practices, but to set universal standards of care and better facilitate sharing of insights between practices.—
James Manso,
Footwear News,
27 May 2026
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The Northeastern research shows AI homogenizes team thinking in ways nobody notices until decision quality drops.—
Daria Rudnik,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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“Democratize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/democratize. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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