How to Use politicize in a Sentence

politicize

verb
  • They have politicized the budget process.
  • The White House is not supposed to politicize the process.
    Roslyn Layton, Forbes, 28 June 2022
  • The Fed is one of the few agencies that Mr. Trump didn’t politicize.
    Alan S. Blinder, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2021
  • These are – the perception of the Court is just the – being politicized here with a big donor.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 28 May 2023
  • Look, the Olympic Games have always been politicized in one way or the other.
    Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 30 July 2024
  • And so Breyer doesn’t want to politicize the Supreme Court (a little late for that).
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 7 July 2021
  • Palestine politicized me in a way that there was no going back the same.
    Robin D.g. Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The blame-the-homeless tech elites that rushed to politicize Bob Lee's murder should feel ashamed.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • And even in an election year, Berry said, the matter of menopause is one that shouldn’t be politicized.
    Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
  • In other words, the facts of Covid-19 were already politicized.
    Gilad Edelman, Wired, 25 Mar. 2020
  • The Supreme Court should not be politicized and packed by either party.
    Destiny Torres, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • What does that say about how politicized this has gotten?
    Fox News, 25 Sep. 2018
  • The phrase appeared to convey a belief that Mr. Bolsonaro had sought to politicize the armed forces.
    New York Times, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The death of Robert Wilson, even more than any high-profile murder case, has been politicized from the jump.
    Mike Newall, Philly.com, 25 June 2018
  • The effort has calmed some fears—not least about politicizing the central bank.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 28 June 2018
  • Still, some scholars believe 18-year terms would help de-politicize the court.
    Bo Erickson, Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The team will have to sidestep attempts to politicize its inquiry.
    New York Times, 13 Jan. 2021
  • And, after that, if that gets politicized, it gets politicized.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
  • In 2015, dozens of members chose not to attend Netanyahu’s address in protest of how the speech had been politicized.
    Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024
  • The quick about-face shows how the decisions of big business have been politicized in recent years.
    Jason Del Rey, Vox, 11 June 2019
  • My preference is even after the fact, not to politicize this.
    Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 25 Jan. 2021
  • And this threat has been supremely politicized by the president.
    Eric Johnson, Vox, 11 June 2019
  • His statement did not specify how the bill would politicize the process of updating the law.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Because the United States Senate politicized the court.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Rather than drive a wedge by politicizing and placing policies on the dais that divert from progress.
    Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2024
  • This name begins the process of de-politicizing ship-naming.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Jan. 2020
  • In today's climate, even a cup of coffee can be politicized.
    Lorraine Longhi, azcentral, 8 July 2019
  • His health has become yet another thing to spin, lie about, and politicize.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Trump’s efforts to politicize and co-opt the military on his behalf.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Republicans have also called the case politicized, and IRS agents say they were removed from the probe.
    Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023

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