How to Use radicalize in a Sentence

radicalize

verb

• The war has radicalized an entire generation of young people.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Now jihadists can send propaganda around the world and radicalize people, such as the man who killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando Fla.
  — Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Sep. 2021
• As an act of charity, the mosque had been looking after him in an attempt to de-radicalize him — helping give him a place to live, food and tuition for a semester of college.
  — Gene Johnson, Star Tribune, 1 June 2021
• Lydia’s backstory shows us how a woman looking for purpose was ripe to be radicalized by Gilead.
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Aug. 2019
• Some have blamed the film — with its graphic scenes of protestors burning tires and setting the city center ablaze — of radicalizing protestors.
  — Time, 24 Sep. 2019
• Sharif worried that Khan had been approached after his release from prison by Islamist plotters and re-radicalized.
  — Arkansas Online, 1 Dec. 2019
• Among the group's projects are helping half a million children get an education and fending off attempts to radicalize them.
  — Associated Press, Houston Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
• He’s counseled Canadian converts to Islam who are at risk or have been radicalized.
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2018
• The outlook for a parent in Gaza today is that if their children aren’t killed in the war, they will be radicalized and recruited in numbers Hamas could only previously have dreamed of.
  — Marc Champion, Twin Cities, 24 Jan. 2024
• If he was radicalized by incel rhetoric, Minassian would not be the first young man to act on this violent ideology.
  — Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, 25 Apr. 2018
• Raids and checkpoints would further radicalize civilians in Gaza.
  — Colin P. Clarke, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2024
• Even without the sisters’ voices, the passages in which Seierstad attempts to piece together how the girls were radicalized are absorbing.
  — Suzy Hansen, New York Times, 4 May 2018
• On these echoey alternative platforms, people tend to radicalize each other and the group may grow only more extreme.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 8 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024