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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of democratize.

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Examples

  • He lingers over photos from the early days: holiday parties with the same stone setters still working in the back today, and, especially, his first ad campaigns, which he says have always tried to sell the idea of democratized luxury.

    LJWorld.com stories: News Samantha Critchell/Associated Press Writer 2010

  • To make research more relevant to developing countries, Mr. Zoellick said it should be "democratized" — meaning that researchers in Washington and Western academic centers should collaborate more with professionals in developing nations.

    World Bank Chief Ignites a Debate Bob Davis 2010

  • Also according to JJ, creativity and filmmaking is now "democratized" due to the availability of technology to every aspiring filmmaker.

    Infinite Imagination 2010

  • Also according to JJ, creativity and filmmaking is now "democratized" due to the availability of technology to every aspiring filmmaker.

    April 2010 2010

  • Also according to JJ, creativity and filmmaking is now "democratized" due to the availability of technology to every aspiring filmmaker.

    Infinite Imagination 2010

  • Control over who has done what has been democratized which is great for everyone.

    London Metropolitan police have lost control of themselves 2009

  • Anyone remember that nice little section in the history book about Banana Republics that we "democratized", "liberated", "civilized" insert preferred terminology here?

    Jeff Sachs Then and Now: Low Growth and Bad Policy in Africa, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Control over who has done what has been democratized which is great for everyone.

    London Metropolitan police have lost control of themselves 2009

  • Claudia Kidwell, Margaret Walsh and Fernandez claim patterns "democratized" clothing, giving ordinary people access to fashionable clothing; see Kidwell, Cutting a Fashionable Fit: Dressmakers 'Drafting Systems in the United States (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979) and Walsh, "The Democratization of Fashion: The Emergence of the Women's Dress Pattern Industry," Journal of American History 66 (1979): 299-313.

    "Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 2006

  • The other predominant strain in American fashion was a new kind of democratized glamour, most evident in the work of Roy Halston Frowick.

    Calvin to the Core Sischy, Ingrid 2008

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