How to Use radicalize in a Sentence

radicalize

verb

• The war has radicalized an entire generation of young people.
• But that's one of the tools that's being used to radicalize these kids.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 13 May 2024
• The gun shots demonstrate that the two sides are already radicalized.
  — Rena Gross, Billboard, 23 May 2018
• The far right is emboldened; the far left is radicalized.
  — Abraham Riesman, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Apr. 2018
• He’d been radicalized against tech in part by Edward Snowden and said that copyright posed a threat to free speech.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• A convert to Islam, it is believed that he was radicalized while in jail.
  — Isobel Thompson, The Hive, 24 Mar. 2017
• The idea that someone could be radicalized by an AI chatbot is very real.
  — David Gilbert, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2024
• For the past five years, Democrats have been radicalizing on the minimum-wage issue.
  — Michael Saltsman, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2018
• And his daughter, who was radicalized by his death, never stopped in her quest to garner justice for him.
  — Angela Helm, The Root, 9 Jan. 2018
• Let’s be clear: James T. Hodgkinson is a zealot who was radicalized online.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 15 June 2017
• They were radicalized by the right-wing response to the Ruby Ridge and Waco disasters.
  — Elliott Woods, The New Republic, 16 Apr. 2018
• The events of 2020 radicalized a portion of the New Right and sped up its rejection of politics-as-usual and its embrace of state power.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 27 May 2023
• Those within the vortex of death get radicalized by the failure of government to tackle the problem.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Feb. 2018
• The group has ruled Gaza since 2007, and some experts worry that the destruction to come may radicalize a new generation of Gazans.
  — Mathias Hammer, Time, 11 Oct. 2023
• The danger to America is posed by fighters abroad and by people here who have been radicalized by the teachings of terror.
  — Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 28 May 2017
• The region is now the home of a local preacher, Ibrahim Malam Dicko, who radicalized and has claimed recent deadly attacks against troops and civilians.
  — Brahima Ouedraogo, The Seattle Times, 15 June 2017
• Having to face that kind of naked, aggressive power on the part of the police and of government agencies radicalizes one.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 3 Feb. 2024
• But some worry that the fallout from the events of Jan. 6 have the potential to further radicalize far-right extremists in Europe.
  — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2021
• All of which is to say that the phenomenon of out-of-staters swooping into Texas to radicalize state politics is a tale as old as Texas itself.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2021
• In this book, her first, Chu further radicalizes the argument.
  — Julian Lucas, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• Those six months behind bars in a Woodstock, Ill., jail further radicalized Debs.
  — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 1 Mar. 2018
• This website, which its founder has even urged be shut down, provides a home for white supremacists to recruit, radicalize and plan.
  — Karen Kornbluh For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 16 Aug. 2019
• Both were radicalized in the United States and discussed jihad in private messages to each other.
  — Lucinda Shen, Time, 2 Oct. 2017
• In the wake of recent attacks, Zara decided to pull her young boys out of Islamic school, opting to teach them at home instead for fear that they might be radicalized.
  — Eliza MacKintosh, Cnn photographs By Sarah Tilotta, CNN, 19 June 2017
• Such attacks might even be said to radicalize the very populations they are meant to terrorize.
  — Max Fisher, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2022
• Like many young people, Bering is radicalized in college when confronted by challenges to the assumptions she has been raised with.
  — Laura Tanenbaum, The New Republic, 17 May 2023
• Iraq is not among the six predominantly Muslim countries included in the travel ban, and the Somalian came to the U.S. as a child and was radicalized here as an adult.
  — Washington Post, 26 May 2017
• There is much more to be done to combat these radicalizing influences.
  — Richard Walton, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
• According to police reports, the suspects had radicalized online and intended to carry out an attack at the Ernst Happel Stadium, where the shows were set to take place.
  — Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 9 Aug. 2024
• The suspects, one a 19-year-old Austrian citizen, reportedly radicalized online and had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in July.
  — Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 8 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024