radicalize
verb (used with object)
to make radical or more radical, as in politics.
radicalized
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past participleof radicalize.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof radicalize.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
Example Sentences
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Authorities believe that the girl was radicalized in the same extremist online networks as Vazquez and Clark and communicated with them using the messaging platform Signal, O’Neill said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
"With Artificial Intelligence, though, it feels more extreme," she added, noting that Moreno-Gama was radicalized through the "'AI existential risk' rhetoric" rather than its employment or environmental impacts.
From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026
The question of how Spencer Pittman was radicalized is, so far, a slightly confounding one.
From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2026
Amid the evidence, investigators have yet to explain how the pair became radicalized to the point of carrying out such an attack, and why authorities didn’t pick up on it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
The verdict radicalized many students at Booker T. Washington High.
From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose
