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Recent Examples of democratize
People were told that artificial intelligence was the final asteroid in the extinction event prophesied by Trevor Horn, and further told that generative models and algorithmic composition would democratize creation until value ceased to exist.
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William Jones, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2026
Chamcham says Mini Studio has opened its tools to creators to democratize animation production and unlock a new wave of original IP with fewer structural barriers.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 6 Jan. 2026
What most engineers overlook is that the race to democratize LiDAR won’t be won on luxury vehicles.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 23 Dec. 2025
In regions such as Latin America, where the United States spent much of the twentieth century supporting military rule, many countries were already skeptical of Washington’s post–Cold War pivot urging governments to democratize.
—Nic Cheeseman, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
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William Jones, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2026
Chamcham says Mini Studio has opened its tools to creators to democratize animation production and unlock a new wave of original IP with fewer structural barriers.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 6 Jan. 2026
What most engineers overlook is that the race to democratize LiDAR won’t be won on luxury vehicles.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 23 Dec. 2025
In regions such as Latin America, where the United States spent much of the twentieth century supporting military rule, many countries were already skeptical of Washington’s post–Cold War pivot urging governments to democratize.
—Nic Cheeseman, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for democratize
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So that’s the first thing that in our mind is helping to standardize the officiating really across the world.—
Pierre LeBrun,
New York Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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Tech company Qicaihong has gone further, expanding from China’s Silicon Valley, Shenzhen, to a very rural part of Yunnan province to standardize local corn production for bigger markets.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
11 Feb. 2026
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To ignore this is to accept and normalize it.—
MARIANA ALFARO THE WASHINGTON POST,
Arkansas Online,
19 Feb. 2026
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Traditional travel writing—which has historically normalized the types of journeys that society rewards, rather than the ones considered taboo—is ill-equipped to make sense of these losses.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Feb. 2026
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But Iglesias equalized in the third minute of stoppage time when Pablo Durán set him up with his heel after a good run from Sergio Carreira.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Feb. 2026
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But Sweden was unfazed as Gabriel Landeskog, a forward for the Colorado Avalanche, equalized just five minutes later.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
11 Feb. 2026
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In her conversations with small-business owners, Higgins learned that some have been forced to reduce staff or lay off employees because several of their workers were TPS beneficiaries or were in the process of regularizing their paperwork.—
Sarah Moreno,
Miami Herald,
23 Oct. 2025
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Advertisement The trauma and alienation experienced by those who endured military occupation at our nation’s founding suggests the peril of regularizing military rule in American cities today.—
Time,
Time,
9 Oct. 2025
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Though denim fashion has homogenized over the past several seasons, Nauman Ahmad, Soorty’s head of product development and business development, sees a growing appetite for novelties.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
26 Jan. 2026
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As time passed, chains like Hattie B’s Hot Chicken and Party Fowl have homogenized the concept, which has caught on in places far from the Music City.—
Matt Moore,
Southern Living,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Democratize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/democratize. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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