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  • verb Present participle of Balkanize.

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Examples

  • Race activists have been accused for years of "Balkanizing" the United States, without justice or truth.

    SeeLight: 2008

  • Race activists have been accused for years of "Balkanizing" the United States, without justice or truth.

    Obama Cartoon 2008

  • After the Degas show, the Metropolitan abolished this Balkanizing approach, henceforth offering a single admission that covers both the permanent collection and all temporary shows.

    The Man Who Remade the Met 2008

  • After the Degas show, the Metropolitan abolished this Balkanizing approach, henceforth offering a single admission that covers both the permanent collection and all temporary shows.

    The Man Who Remade the Met 2008

  • The US, in case you hadn't noticed, is rapidly Balkanizing.

    Paul: 'People will have a chance' with Barr 2008

  • There is a common view that the Internet itself is Balkanizing and spreading people into point of view communities.

    Jose Antonio Vargas: TRANSCRIPT: Q&A with Al Gore 2010

  • This is what several of the Democratic candidates insist they want to do next year -- end the Balkanizing of their party.

    Stripping Off The Straitjacket 2008

  • That leads to this Balkanizing proposition: group thinking is natural and admirable.

    Districting By Pigmentation 2008

  • V. Ravani, a former chief justice in Rajasthan, "is Balkanizing the country, and threatening the very basic fabric of this society."

    Modi's Moment 2007

  • Lastly, we consider Balkanizing present-day Iraq into three parts, with some provision for oil money being shared with the Sunni middle.

    Think Progress » National Review Editor: Iraq May Be Turning Into Bush’s Vietnam 2006

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