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  • verb transitive To make something banal or commonplace.

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Examples

  • Of course, as with all truly interesting phenomena, pundits now are trying to banalize the scandal by reducing it to one man, one company, one hobby- horse.

    Law & Order, Fleet Street Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011

  • And should we allow these doctored, computerized images of the Holocaust to banalize the most horrible, incomparable event of human History?

    Hollywood's Nazi Revisionism Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

  • And should we allow these doctored, computerized images of the Holocaust to banalize the most horrible, incomparable event of human History?

    Hollywood's Nazi Revisionism Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

  • And should we allow these doctored, computerized images of the Holocaust to banalize the most horrible, incomparable event of human History?

    Hollywood's Nazi Revisionism Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

  • In spite of all our usual concepts and labels, the generalities through which we banalize the world into items of mere utility, we are suddenly forced to perceive an ordinary thing in an entirely unique fashion.

    Why I am Not a Pantheist (Nor a Panentheist): Metaphysics, Totalization, and the Cosmos By Jonathan Weidenbaum William Harryman 2009

  • Haaretz duly notes the “efforts to banalize the Holocaust” in Chavez speech, and notes that a few months ago the CAIV leadership tried to excuse another anti Semitic utterance of Chavez even as a majority of the Jewish population in Venezuela seems to have been against the directive of the CAIV bureau something Haaretz might want o inquire within?

    08/06/2006 - 08/13/2006 2006

  • Haaretz duly notes the “efforts to banalize the Holocaust” in Chavez speech, and notes that a few months ago the CAIV leadership tried to excuse another anti Semitic utterance of Chavez even as a majority of the Jewish population in Venezuela seems to have been against the directive of the CAIV bureau something Haaretz might want o inquire within?

    The story gets told: anti-Semitism and press restrictions 2006

  • Does its construction demean and banalize the music?

    Archive 2004-03-14 BRN 2004

  • Does its construction demean and banalize the music?

    Archive 2004-03-01 BRN 2004

  • Does its construction demean and banalize the music?

    Archive 2004-03-01 BRN 2004

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