as in to standardize
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Recent Examples of democratize
That change may look like the ambitious and growing national people’s budgets movement, which brings together local residents and community groups to protest budget cuts on essential services, articulate budget priorities and democratize the budget process.
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Celina Su, The Conversation, 1 Apr. 2026
Hsu said Apple's early bestsellers, like the 1984 Macintosh desktop computer, helped democratize technology.
—Chloe Veltman, NPR, 1 Apr. 2026
This new Department of Labor reform has the potential to finally democratize access to the same types of wealth-building investments that Wall Street elites, big university and foundation endowments, and public pensions have long had all to themselves.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
Some musicians contend that AI is helping to democratize the creation of music.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 27 Mar. 2026
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Celina Su, The Conversation, 1 Apr. 2026
Hsu said Apple's early bestsellers, like the 1984 Macintosh desktop computer, helped democratize technology.
—Chloe Veltman, NPR, 1 Apr. 2026
This new Department of Labor reform has the potential to finally democratize access to the same types of wealth-building investments that Wall Street elites, big university and foundation endowments, and public pensions have long had all to themselves.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
Some musicians contend that AI is helping to democratize the creation of music.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 27 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for democratize
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Her work is shaped by her military service, where procedure and outcomes are standardized.—
Laura Berrios,
AJC.com,
7 May 2026
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The first is standardized reporting that discloses trial funding, investigator payments, enrollment criteria and the rationale for site selection.—
Sukhun Kang,
The Conversation,
6 May 2026
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Israeli leaders have made occasional visits to the UAE in recent years after normalizing relations.—
Natalie Melzer,
Chicago Tribune,
13 May 2026
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President Biden never came, becoming the first to not do so since diplomatic ties were normalized, an absence that underscored simmering distrust and animosity between Washington and Beijing that has only worsened since.—
Kevin Rector,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2026
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Cucho Hernández put Betis ahead in the ninth minute and Pablo Fornals scored the winner in the 68th after Héctor Fort had equalized for Elche shortly before halftime.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 May 2026
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Brennan Creek equalized in the 34th minute after a corner kick caused some chaos in the box.—
Braidon Nourse,
Denver Post,
30 Apr. 2026
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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
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Madrid has, however, gone further by moving to regularize nearly half a million undocumented migrants and by courting many more foreigners, a push that its socialist prime minister has argued is helping drive an economic boom.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
6 Apr. 2026
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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
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Character sketches can sometimes end up homogenizing the host into the ensemble, but that doesn’t happen here.—
Rima Parikh,
Vulture,
5 Apr. 2026
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“Democratize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/democratize. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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