How to Use militarize in a Sentence

militarize

verb
Definition of militarizenext
Synonyms for militarizenext
  • The Guardian reports that Uber sponsors a trade show that aims to militarize the police.
    — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 10 Feb. 2016
  • The move is just the latest in a series of attempts to militarize Russia's youth.
    — Fox News, 24 May 2020
  • China has been militarizing the islands in the area to support its claims.
    — Regine Cabato, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Star Wars was not the first time the U.S. considered militarizing space.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 16 Mar. 2018
  • New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson said the one-mile radius will not be militarized or have checkpoints.
    — Ben Guarino, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2020
  • For all his martial rhetoric, Kennedy was no more willing to militarize space than Eisenhower had been.
    — Jeff Shesol, WSJ, 29 May 2021
  • In recent years, China has built and militarized manmade islands in the South China Sea.
    — Jeanette Steele, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 May 2017
  • The region is one of the most heavily militarized in the world, patrolled by soldiers and paramilitary police.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
  • To counter that dissent, the Kremlin has worked to militarize education.
    — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • President Trump’s threat to militarize the protest response.
    — Kristina Mani, The Conversation, 8 June 2020
  • Outsource, militarize right across the board, so that a neoliberal is somebody who is obsessed with markets.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Smarter-than-human A.I. and the need to militarize A.I. are being proselytized as inevitable.
    — Wendell Wallach, Fortune, 18 Feb. 2022
  • China has steadily built up and is militarizing the sea’s scattered islands and shoals, which other nations also claim.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
  • To hear civil libertarians tell it, Montana’s recent push to de-militarize the police has its roots in the Bozeman BearCat incident of 2014.
    — Graham Vyse, New Republic, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Inside office suites at the Capitol, many aides watched on TV as the President used a midday event about militarizing space to address the crisis at the border that consumed most of the weekend’s cable segments.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 20 June 2018
  • The booming economy has allowed Mr. Xi to militarize capitalism and make China the second largest economy in the world.
    — WSJ, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Beijing claims an enormous swath of territory through the center of the sea, and has attempted to reinforce its hold on the area by creating and militarizing artificial islands in the Spratlys and the Paracels.
    — Ben Westcott, CNN, 3 May 2018
  • Giammattei has sought to win over urban voters with a pledge to militarize public security to reduce crime.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2019
  • But that was the late 1960s—today, with police militarized like never before, and Punisher skulls plastered on more than a few patrol cars nationwide, the original name might be welcomed.
    — Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2020
  • To strengthen its position in the region, Beijing has built and militarized artificial islands in the Paracel and Spratly island chains.
    — Ben Westcott, CNN, 28 Mar. 2018
  • China claims almost the entire sea as its sovereign territory, and has spent recent years militarizing and building up sandbars and islets across the region.
    — James Griffiths, CNN, 25 Nov. 2019
  • To that end, their characters are based not on history, but on a creation of nationalist rhetoric employed to militarize a nation that proceeded to invade many of its neighbors in the late 19th and mid-20th century.
    — Reid McCarter, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Many are calling for Congress and the Pentagon to more tightly align their parochial interests to further militarize the space business with ever more expensive, bespoke death star satellites.
    — Charles Beames, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • And more fundamentally, there's the issue of breaking the informal taboo on militarizing space.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2019
  • But the company has since halted the project following a mass resignation of its own advisers, who panned it as a crackpot dystopian fantasy that could militarize schools and get children hurt.
    — Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 6 June 2022
  • Not so lucky Not all swatting victims are so fortunate, as US police are heavily armed, increasingly all-out militarized, and often all too willing to fire.
    — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Built up by seafloor dredging from islets and shoals, these islands are, contrary to Beijing’s earlier statements, gradually becoming militarized with air bases, radars, and weapons.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Dec. 2017
  • This is taxpayer money that has been used to militarize our border at a great cost for a once dynamic border communities and immigrants, human rights.
    — Fox News, 11 Sep. 2018
  • Boom has reportedly promised not to militarize the technology—a promise obviously being stretched by the deal with Northrop Grumman.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2022
  • Hutchison said the biggest risk out there was currently Russia, with a militarizing China presenting a potential threat as well.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2019

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