radicalize
verb (used with object)
to make radical or more radical, as in politics.
is radicalizing
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present progressiveof radicalize (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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After years of reading about the ways that Facebook is radicalizing and polarizing people I wanted to see it for myself — not in the aggregate, but up close and over time.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2020
Meanwhile, Turkey is determined to push from its borders an armed group that it says is radicalizing its own Kurdish minority.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 2, 2018
Amnesty’s report follows increasing concerns that state repression is radicalizing the Rohingya.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2016
Lorne Dawson of the University of Waterloo believes that there must be someone in that city that is radicalizing and recruiting extremists there.
From US News ● Oct. 25, 2014
