How to Use nationalize in a Sentence

nationalize

verb
  • The government nationalized the health-care system in the mid-1950s.
  • So, the fact is when Trump is involved, it's nationalized.
    Fox News, 28 July 2018
  • Even the attention of the donor class has nationalized.
    Yascha Mounk, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2015
  • But on Tuesday, Congress held a hearing to consider more than a dozen bills to nationalize the rules of the road.
    Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 29 June 2017
  • The GOP has decried the bills as an effort to nationalize elections.
    Adam Brewster, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Leftists are the ones who want to nationalize things like health care and the energy sector.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The threat is so acute that the government made plans to nationalize the business, known as Gazprom Energy.
    Rachel Morison, Bloomberg.com, 26 Mar. 2022
  • For her part, Brown and her allies have tried to nationalize the race a bit more by focusing on those past comments.
    cleveland, 24 July 2021
  • The aid infusion falls short of nationalizing the company, in which the French and Dutch states each own a 14 percent share.
    Liz Alderman, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2020
  • And the more a race is nationalized, the more that race can tell us about voters' moods going into November.
    Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2018
  • While making a name for himself, Pedro caught the eye of Chavez himself — and the late president promised to support bids to nationalize the sport.
    Natalie Keyssar, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Although Ohio is far from the border in question, the issue has been nationalized to great effect.
    Ron Elving, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Of course the Empire didn’t want the powerful X-Wing falling into the wrong hands and tried to nationalize the company in service of the Empire.
    Zarnon Kalgon, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
  • Tran, who had gotten work at Shell Oil upon moving home, was laid off when the company was nationalized by the new regime.
    Samantha Swindler, OregonLive.com, 21 Oct. 2017
  • The more than 150 Catholic schools that once operated across the island were nationalized.
    Peter Orsi, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2019
  • At the same time, Lamb steadfastly avoided nationalizing the race and brushed off most questions about Trump.
    Time, 14 Mar. 2018
  • For that, Northam can thank Perriello, who nationalized the race in ways that should send shudders down the spines of Republicans across the country.
    Alex Shephard, New Republic, 14 June 2017
  • There also has been a push to re-nationalize the collection that once belonged to a Soviet artists’ trade union.
    Nataliya Vasilyeva, The Seattle Times, 27 Apr. 2017
  • On the campaign trail, Sanders proudly nationalized her run for state office.
    Sarah D. Wire, USA TODAY, 22 June 2024
  • Each campaign blames the other for nationalizing the race.
    Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Now, in a world where governments are nationalizing wages and public services just to keep their economies afloat, such claims no longer seem far-fetched.
    Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2020
  • At the time of Hebblethwaite's mass layoffs, the UK government had been urged to nationalize the company.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Russia’s actions to nationalize the planes still in Russia.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022
  • This law required the U.S. government to nationalize the country’s silver mines and use the silver production to mint coins.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2021
  • The bloody 1980s war with Iraq saw Iran further nationalize its economy.
    Nasser Karmi, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 May 2020
  • Where everyone loses me is with the idea that the solution to these maladies can be found in Washington or in nationalizing movements of the Right or the Left.
    Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The new ad is the latest sign that Republicans are looking to nationalize the governor's race.
    Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Socialists want to nationalize banks, not break them up.
    Donald Brand, Fortune, 12 July 2017
  • The speech included 40 bills, compared to the Conservatives’ last speech which had just 21, ranging from house building to nationalizing Britain’s railways.
    Fox News, 17 July 2024
  • But Republicans believe their candidate can edge ahead of Brown by nationalizing the race.
    Nik Popli, TIME, 7 Oct. 2024

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