How to Use propagandize in a Sentence

propagandize

verb
  • He uses his movies to propagandize for the state.
  • They were propagandized into believing what the government wanted them to believe.
  • This is likely because of the demands of dramatic compression rather than any propagandizing on the part of the show’s makers.
    Mike Hale, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
  • But the illumination clearly shows how art can be used to propagandize hate.
    Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 1 Sep. 2019
  • Yes, Cuba has high rates of literacy, but the state wanted readers in order to propagandize them.
    Mona Charen, National Review, 26 Feb. 2020
  • There has been an effort to propagandize the public with the idiotic mantra of no obstruction no collusion.
    Alana Abramson, Time, 25 June 2019
  • In such a world, a university can exist only to propagandize.
    WSJ, 9 Aug. 2020
  • Russian state media propagandized for Trump and against Clinton every day.
    Brian Beutler, New Republic, 11 July 2017
  • That may be the message aimed at Fox News and his other wavering right-wing allies: stop criticizing and start propagandizing.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 11 July 2019
  • Saudi Twitter has since become a place for the government to propagandize, track dissident thought, and identify victims for MBS’s personal team of enforcers.
    Jacob Silverman, The New Republic, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Kim is immature and paranoid about losing power to his own generals, his people and propagandized external threats.
    Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • The software will be used to quash an ever increasing growth of extremist recruiting and propagandizing on digital platforms.
    Kurt Snibbe, Orange County Register, 26 May 2017
  • These efforts are so widespread, they have already been propagandized, in promotional videos wherein drones disperse groups of people playing newly dangerous sidewalk games of mah-jongg.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2020
  • This is why perpetrators work so hard to propagandize, criminalize, and dehumanize the Other.
    Anna Lind-Guzik, Vox, 20 June 2019
  • Meanwhile the Chinese government is constantly propagandizing against the United States within China and beyond its borders.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The Education Department is letting for-profit colleges fleece their students — while its leader tours the country propagandizing against the very concept of public education.
    Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 5 Oct. 2017
  • But the musicians and other performers being sent by Pyongyang, like any North Korean artist allowed to appear overseas, will have been well-trained in propagandizing for the country’s authoritarian regime.
    Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2018
  • This year, the public learned that Russian operatives used Facebook to propagandize and troll Americans during the 2016 election, using connectivity to create division.
    Avi Selk, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2018

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