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Recent Examples of militarize
Soldiers in the streets of Washington, the firing of an independent federal official, threats to militarize Chicago—these are not passing headlines.
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Aron Solomon
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Because Iraq’s al-Sistani would not militarize his followers, Iran went mullah shopping and found another more inclined to do so.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
These populist revolts, rooted in white supremacy, fueled the shift in federal policy away from a war on poverty to funding law-and-order legislation that militarized police forces and set the stage for the exponential growth in the U.S. prison population.
—Jackson Potter, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities and end elections.
—USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
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Aron Solomon
september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
Because Iraq’s al-Sistani would not militarize his followers, Iran went mullah shopping and found another more inclined to do so.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
These populist revolts, rooted in white supremacy, fueled the shift in federal policy away from a war on poverty to funding law-and-order legislation that militarized police forces and set the stage for the exponential growth in the U.S. prison population.
—Jackson Potter, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities and end elections.
—USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for militarize
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Gripen fighters have the reputation of being relatively cheap and easy to maintain and arm, and able to operate in austere conditions – using roads or even dirt roads for runways.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
23 Oct. 2025
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We’d be traveling to a bunker near another unit, Team B, which would assemble suicide drones and arm them with explosives.—
Ken Harbaugh,
The Atlantic,
15 Sep. 2025
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Lobbing an anti-satellite, or counter-space, weapon into the same orbital plane as its potential target ties Russia's hands.—
Robert Pearlman,
ArsTechnica,
11 July 2025
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Saleh said the organization refuses to stand by as Israel ships weapon components to the U.S. to be developed and then used on the people of Gaza.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
19 June 2025
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But can talking about the cost of living mobilize young people?—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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By mobilizing the peoples of South America.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Militarize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/militarize. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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