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  • verb Present participle of ghettoize.

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Examples

  • Re people "ghettoizing" themselves in nearly every first generation expat situation, you just hit the core of the matter.

    Page 3 2009

  • The stigma of "writer of dog stories" is still a problem — as is the "ghettoizing" of his works in the juvenile section of the libraries.

    Interview With Jack London Scholar Dr. Earle Labor 2010

  • Some critics have commented that by "ghettoizing" science fiction, Gernsback in fact did harm to its literary growth, but this viewpoint has been countered by the argument that science fiction needed an independent market in which to develop if it was going to reach its potential.

    Archive 2009-01-11 Zen Tiger 2009

  • I don't think that's the same as "ghettoizing" the Obama campaign.

    Wolfson On Ferraro's Latest: "We Have Made Clear That We Reject Her Remarks" 2009

  • Yes indeedy McCain might win, particularly with the very bad blood in the Dem camp right now regarding Clinton's tactics of "ghettoizing" Obama as the black candidate.

    The McCain coalition Burke's Corner 2008

  • I think they wind up -- to use a term that t hey often use -- "ghettoizing" them, because I suppose I'm an old-fashioned integrationist.

    Tenured Radicals 1990

  • Parkside resident and mother of four Stela Pavic raised her concern of "ghettoizing" the neighborhood, and asked which other sites were possible.

    dailytarheel.com - Serving the University community since 1893 lsnuggs 2010

  • Instead of "ghettoizing" low-income people, she said, the city must "come up with a vision of mixed use or mixed income" for priority neighbourhoods, one where services such as grocery stores are close to home.

    INSIDETORONTO - Home 2010

  • I DO NOT believe that what Russell is advocating is "ghettoizing" the church, but rather for communities to understand and manifest their particular cultural context in the church.

    Next Gener.Asian Church Jay 2010

  • Program participants use the rhetoric of "ghettoizing" in blog postings.

    NGO Monitor Research 2009

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