DEMOCRATIZING Synonyms: 18 Similar and Opposite Words

democratizing

verb

present participle of democratize

as in standardizing

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disequilibrating

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The Linux Foundation’s Tokenomics Foundation—focused on standardizing how companies measure and manage AI token costs and connect them to business value—officially launches today, backed by about 30 initial members.

— Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026
The latest accomplishment has been standardizing what materials can be recycled across four out of five households.

— Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026

Definition of standardizing

Verb

Moving Instagram to a bigger screen, then, is usually a route not to normalizing it in that new space but instead to severing ties with it altogether.

— Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2026
Originally developed for use in hospitals, the band releases a specific pattern of pulses to your wrist, normalizing the nerve messaging from the brain to the stomach to essentially tell the brain to turn off feelings of nausea and vomiting.

— ABC News, ABC News, 1 Aug. 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

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
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

Definition of regularizing

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