How to Use democratize in a Sentence

democratize

verb
  • The magazine's goal is to democratize art.
  • There is internal pressure on the government to democratize.
  • Community leaders have had some success in democratizing the organization.
  • The high art elevates the low, and the low art democratizes the high.
    Chronicle Staff Report, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2017
  • But now women can dress more freely than ever, and fashion has been so democratized.
    Christine Whitney, The Cut, 10 Oct. 2017
  • In our day, this defect — moral overheating — has been democratized: Anyone can have it.
    George Will, National Review, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Amazon also owns Twitch, the world’s best democratized streaming platform for gamers.
    Jacob Feldman, SI.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Today, the story is more complicated, but a lot more democratized.
    George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Jan. 2018
  • Instead of only trying to encourage superrich people to secure land, to democratize the process and engage many many people.
    James Fallows, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2017
  • Aston wants to make a less expensive mid-engined car, and Chevrolet’s decision to make the next Corvette mid-engined could democratize the whole game.
    Car and Driver, 10 Oct. 2017
  • As part of the Lenfest project, Backyard is doing a deep dive into the power of podcasts to improve local civic engagement and to democratize access to media.
    Jeff Gammage, Philly.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The idea was both to democratize the world of fly casting and to build a customer base.
    New York Times, 15 May 2021
  • In the late 1990s, reformists were a faction of the regime that tried to democratize the Islamic Republic from within.
    Mohammad Ali Kadivar, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Therefore, there is still a lot of room for more no-code tools to help democratize the internet.
    Frederick Daso, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • What’s going to be democratized next? To be fair, there isn’t quite the same level of despair and smoggy dreams.
    Andy Kessler, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2023
  • That wasn’t out of budget constraints, that was to democratize self-care.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Social media has democratized beauty in a way that is unique to this decade.
    Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 5 Oct. 2023
  • But the true magic of NFTs lies not just in the technology itself, but in its ability to democratize the very essence of art.
    Kyle Russell, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Grant hopes the foundation can help democratize the buying, selling and valuing of art, both in the metaverse and in real life.
    Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 June 2022
  • His wish to democratize leisure is bound to a fierce disdain for the rich but never translated into any concern for the poor.
    Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Or has the proliferation of the 401(k) democratized Wall Street a bit?
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Musk has sought to democratize the policy around the blue check mark, which had become something of a status marker.
    Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The best tools in each of these categories are human-centric, democratizing the power to manage the production process on both the front end and the back end.
    Natan Linder, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Real people, real reviews: this was the early tagline for Yelp, which was founded in 2004 and aimed to democratize the world of reviews.
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Pierre Cardin, 98, is a French designer who was first to democratize high fashion and develop his name as a brand.
    Marc Myers, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2020
  • This used to be the mandate of a diplomat; however, the new power, the one coming from the people, democratizes this very idea of diplomacy.
    Celine Semaan, Teen Vogue, 31 Jan. 2020
  • The idea, according to Google, was to democratize travel as the pandemic eased.
    Laura Forman, WSJ, 11 July 2022
  • The museum’s staging of the posters in the public domain is intended to hark back to the decade’s subversive, democratized art scene.
    Kate Keller, Smithsonian, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Tokenizing RWAs increases liquidity, transparency, and accessibility and is often viewed as a way to democratize the traditional financial markets.
    Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 3 Oct. 2024
  • What may be bothering California’s lawmakers is that the means for making and distributing forms of political propaganda are being democratized.
    The Editors, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024

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