radicalize
verb
rad·i·cal·ize
ˈra-di-kə-ˌlīz 
radicalized; radicalizing
: to make radical especially in politics
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The war has radicalized an entire generation of young people.
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Everyday Americans are radicalized by the apparent validation of the extremists’ claim that federal power is the enemy.
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Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
This radicalized Hamas, which saw the accords as a legalization of Israeli grabbing Palestinian land.
—Caise D. Hassan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Oct. 2024
Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack, especially, has radicalized both Israelis and Palestinians, who today trust each other even less than before.
—Marwan Muasher, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2024
What this story reminds us isn’t that a woman named Sara Jane Moore was radicalized into action, but that history — for all of the larger than life sweep that word implies — is ultimately written on a level too personal for textbooks to ever understand.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2024
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Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
This radicalized Hamas, which saw the accords as a legalization of Israeli grabbing Palestinian land.
—Caise D. Hassan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Oct. 2024
Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack, especially, has radicalized both Israelis and Palestinians, who today trust each other even less than before.
—Marwan Muasher, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2024
What this story reminds us isn’t that a woman named Sara Jane Moore was radicalized into action, but that history — for all of the larger than life sweep that word implies — is ultimately written on a level too personal for textbooks to ever understand.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2024
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“Radicalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/radicalize. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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