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Recent Examples of democratize
Founded to democratize access to resources from the modern film industry, Decentralized Pictures has already awarded more than $1 million in grants and support to indie filmmakers.
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026
Western pundits, policymakers and scholars believed that China’s economic growth would democratize the autocratic country.
—Michelle Kuo, The Dial, 14 Apr. 2026
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.
—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
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026
Western pundits, policymakers and scholars believed that China’s economic growth would democratize the autocratic country.
—Michelle Kuo, The Dial, 14 Apr. 2026
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for democratize
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One of the most important among these standards was RIAA’s equalization curve, developed in 1954, which standardized the width of the grooves used in records and established specifications for the frequency response of audio recordings (known as the RIAA Curve).—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
20 May 2026
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Researchers from CultureAmp standardized the rating scales of 741 companies and over 200,000 employees.—
Peter D. Banko,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2026
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Danielle Byrd, a 23-year-old fitness influencer, says the pouches appeal to athletes looking for an alternative to energy drinks and pre-workout powders, as heavy caffeine use becomes increasingly normalized in the fitness industry.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
20 May 2026
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At some point, supply and demand will normalize, and memory prices will come down.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
20 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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That fear, in 2026, centers on how rapid information exchange and artificial intelligence are reshaping human thought into something collective and homogenized.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
16 May 2026
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TikTok clips and algorithmic playlists may help lead kids toward Hum, Failure, Swervedriver or Lovesliescrushing, but Slide Away gives that discovery physical form — a real-world counterpoint to increasingly homogenized corporate festival culture.—
Jonathan Cohen,
SPIN,
13 May 2026
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“Democratize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/democratize. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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