democratizing

present participle of democratize

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for democratizing
Verb
  • 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
  • That includes standardizing how infrastructure is defined, reducing variation across environments and ensuring that policies are enforced as part of how systems operate rather than as an afterthought.
    Matthew Sweeney, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Verb
  • Both right and left are normalizing violence against politicians.
    Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 2 June 2026
  • By normalizing struggle and encouraging shared responsibility, leaders can distribute the emotional labor of change across the system rather than forcing individuals to carry it alone.
    Lourdes Mestre, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Verb
  • Covering not just movies and television but also theater and cabaret, Reed, a Southerner who seemed as much a part of Manhattan as the skyline, lorded over the arts with a homogenizing mainstream peremptoriness.
    Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
  • Character sketches can sometimes end up homogenizing the host into the ensemble, but that doesn’t happen here.
    Rima Parikh, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • And San Antonio made that proclamation real for us in Game 4, cruising to a victory and equalizing the series 2-2.
    Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 25 May 2026
  • Ronaldo, who joined the club in December 2022, came close to equalizing just before halftime but his close-range header from a Joao Felix cross sailed wide.
    ABC News, ABC News, 16 May 2026
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
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“Democratizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/democratizing. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.

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