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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of Talibanize.
  • adjective Governed by the Taliban
  • adjective That has undergone Talibanization

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Examples

  • We should stop them now itself, or else we will face the same situation as prevalent in those countries which are "Talibanized".

    rediff.com 2009

  • At the national level, only Minister of State for Women and Child Development Renuka Chaudhury of the ruling Congress-led coalition government roundly criticized the hooligans and stated that the city was being "Talibanized."

    Religious Wars 2009

  • He has filed a criminal case against her for allegedly glorifying what he calls isolated incidents and generalizing the city as Talibanized.

    India News Digest: Gold scales new peak 2009

  • We know what sharia means to civilized humanity: We witness it in Saudi Arabia; we witness it in Afghanistan under the Taliban; we witness it in Talibanized areas of Pakistan.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • And in Afghanistan, I guess that there are a number of tribes that, if not for sale, at least for rent, and people who have been Talibanized because they had no alternative.

    CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2009 2009

  • Unfortunately the future is also starting to look bleak for girls and women in Pakistan, which is gradually being Talibanized.

    Zeyno Baran: Let the Truth Shine 2009

  • Would a Talibanized Afghanistan draw Pakistani Taliban across the border, where the power is, or energize them to ramp up their insurgency against the Pakistani government (which funded their cross-border brothers, but not them)?

    Harry Shearer: The Afghanistan War: Just Askin' 2009

  • Having grown up as a Parsee in Karachi where women can walk unrebuked with a duppatta over their heads, she thought for the very first time, "Bloody hell -- this country is being Talibanized '"

    Betwa Sharma: Asking Pakistanis, When? 2009

  • I don't want to see the US leave, I see those poor folks being re-Talibanized if US and UN leave...

    Is Obama Giving Up on Afghanistan membrain 2009

  • Situation is still the same in Peshawar university Talibanized Campus only allow induction of MA in jobs.

    Spill over effects of instability in Afghanistan 2007

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