How to Use democratize in a Sentence

democratize

verb
  • The magazine's goal is to democratize art.
  • There is internal pressure on the government to democratize.
  • Community leaders have had some success in democratizing the organization.
  • But for Redditors who've shied away from creating their own communities in the past, the new toolset democratizes the process.
    Arielle Pardes, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Here are the top three ways cryptocurrency is helping to democratize global transactions.
    Kirill Radchenko, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Leave it to two A-list wellness gurus to democratize customized fitness and nutrition programs for the world.
    Kathryn Romeyn, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The first step in egg freezing is to hormonally democratize this dictatorship.
    Sloane Crosley, The Cut, 26 Mar. 2018
  • As for the question of partisan primaries, this is the product of a century-long effort by progressives to democratize the nominating process.
    Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The idea was both to democratize the world of fly casting and to build a customer base.
    New York Times, 15 May 2021
  • Therefore, there is still a lot of room for more no-code tools to help democratize the internet.
    Frederick Daso, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • What’s going to be democratized next? To be fair, there isn’t quite the same level of despair and smoggy dreams.
    Andy Kessler, WSJ, 31 Dec. 2023
  • That wasn’t out of budget constraints, that was to democratize self-care.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Social media has democratized beauty in a way that is unique to this decade.
    Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 5 Oct. 2023
  • But the true magic of NFTs lies not just in the technology itself, but in its ability to democratize the very essence of art.
    Kyle Russell, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Grant hopes the foundation can help democratize the buying, selling and valuing of art, both in the metaverse and in real life.
    Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 June 2022
  • His wish to democratize leisure is bound to a fierce disdain for the rich but never translated into any concern for the poor.
    Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Or has the proliferation of the 401(k) democratized Wall Street a bit?
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Musk has sought to democratize the policy around the blue check mark, which had become something of a status marker.
    Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The best tools in each of these categories are human-centric, democratizing the power to manage the production process on both the front end and the back end.
    Natan Linder, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Real people, real reviews: this was the early tagline for Yelp, which was founded in 2004 and aimed to democratize the world of reviews.
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Pierre Cardin, 98, is a French designer who was first to democratize high fashion and develop his name as a brand.
    Marc Myers, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2020
  • This used to be the mandate of a diplomat; however, the new power, the one coming from the people, democratizes this very idea of diplomacy.
    Celine Semaan, Teen Vogue, 31 Jan. 2020
  • The idea, according to Google, was to democratize travel as the pandemic eased.
    Laura Forman, WSJ, 11 July 2022
  • The museum’s staging of the posters in the public domain is intended to hark back to the decade’s subversive, democratized art scene.
    Kate Keller, Smithsonian, 23 Apr. 2018
  • They could be made easily from cotton, which also democratized the dish-drying tool and were and were designed with striped or checked cloth.
    Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Our aim is to democratize our content in a way that is both relatable and inclusive.
    Kaitlyn Frey, PEOPLE.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • In a way, opportunities like the Gramercy Prize help democratize the art world.
    Ariana Marsh, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Sep. 2021
  • For those in the movement to democratize the Labour Party, this was an insoluble dilemma.
    David Graeber, The New York Review of Books, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Instead, Weber decided to democratize the list by surveying people on the internet, which, in theory, opened up the discourse to the entire world.
    Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Arthur’s commitment to democratizing AI has resulted in a platform where developers can innovate freely with flexible, open-source models.
    Elad Gil, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024

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