DEMOCRATIZING Synonyms: 18 Similar and Opposite Words

democratizing

verb

present participle of democratize

as in standardizing

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Dissimilar Words

disequilibrating

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for democratizing

Verb

Wide variation in editing behavior across individuals is usually a sign that the review process itself needs standardizing.

— Pat Williams, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Police officials told the City Council last week that the department had tightened data-sharing practices and was standardizing its auditing procedures following concerns raised by a local advocacy group.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of standardizing

Verb

Impressively, the growth occurred during a period when revenue appeared flat due to normalizing post-pandemic energy pass-through adjustments.

— Harvey Stober, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
Psyllium is safe and effective for improving IBS symptoms by normalizing stool and reducing gas.

— Melissa Fiorenza, HEALTH, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of normalizing

Verb

Various claims are made that since generative AI is based on statistically homogenizing human knowledge, the result will be that humans will follow suit.

— Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
The first book was published the same year as Serial debuted, kicking off our burgeoning obsession with true crime and our tendency to romanticize the male perpetrators while often homogenizing their overwhelmingly female victims into cautionary tales.

— Scarlett Harris, Time, 11 June 2026

Definition of homogenizing

Verb

Successive governments from the political center, right and left maintained policies aimed at regularizing Venezuelans, eventually receiving nearly a third of the diaspora.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2026
Driven by blunt ideology rather than the reality of balancing harms, Font and Putnam-Hornstein advance a flawed and damaging premise that child safety requires normalizing and regularizing family separation.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026

Definition of regularizing

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