to politicize
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- verb
- /pəˈlɪtɪˌsaɪz/
- Literature
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politizar
- Nevertheless, the balance between public and private education is easily politicized as an issue of fairness.
- politicize education
- politicized discourse
- politicized democracy
But the isn't the problem when we politicize issues like this.
- But the isn't the problem when we politicize issues like this.
- That should be what the headline is, Trump politicizing death in California.
- And So what they've done is they, they immediately politicized the, the process.
- That he's politicized the air traffic control.
- So they go to work trying to re politicize Foucault.
- And the concern around this case is the way that it was so politicized by the Labour Party.
- And to me, it's another example of something that then gets politicized as it moves on.
- And apart from that, outside of that, things were not politicized.
- We tend to politicize certain things, but God loves all.
- It's uniting when that itself becomes politicized.
- When an issue becomes politicized, it becomes much harder to change and shift.
- They don't want the Department of Justice to politicize the process and and to police politicians.
- So that's how it becomes politicized.
- And I'm also aware that people use illegal border crossings as a way to sort of rile up the conversation, to politicize it, to create fear of outsiders.
- It took what was they just politicize the whole thing, you know.
- And if you can politicise that, man, that gets out the boat.
Examples
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COVID and the, and the vaccine for it has been politicized in a number of settings.
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There is no doubt that participation in local politics further politicized and fragmented the Soviet armed forces.
Academic text (1992) -
And we have to politicize folks about policies and how we can change policies.
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We tend to politicize certain things, but God loves all.
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And the concern around this case is the way that it was so politicized by the Labour Party.
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And to me, it's another example of something that then gets politicized as it moves on.
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Has higher education become politicized, if not altogether, at least in certain significant respects?
Academic text (1992) -
Thus, the Arms Control Law both militarized law enforcement and politicized violations of the law.
Academic text (1991) -
You just, it shouldn't be the thing and we shouldn't be politicizing everything.
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Many people believe that the media tends to politicize social issues to gain viewers.
Synonyms
To make people or groups accept one set of beliefs
Antonyms
How Politicized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Politicize comes from politic (related to politics, 'the activities of government') plus the ending -ize, which means 'make'. So, to politicize something is to 'make' it political or to give it a political point of view.