How to Use nationalize in a Sentence

nationalize

verb
Definition of nationalizenext
  • The government nationalized the health-care system in the mid-1950s.
  • So, the fact is when Trump is involved, it's nationalized.
    — Fox News, 28 July 2018
  • The GOP has decried the bills as an effort to nationalize elections.
    — Adam Brewster, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Leftists are the ones who want to nationalize things like health care and the energy sector.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The threat is so acute that the government made plans to nationalize the business, known as Gazprom Energy.
    — Rachel Morison, Bloomberg.com, 26 Mar. 2022
  • For her part, Brown and her allies have tried to nationalize the race a bit more by focusing on those past comments.
    — cleveland, 24 July 2021
  • The aid infusion falls short of nationalizing the company, in which the French and Dutch states each own a 14 percent share.
    — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2020
  • While making a name for himself, Pedro caught the eye of Chavez himself — and the late president promised to support bids to nationalize the sport.
    — Natalie Keyssar, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Although Ohio is far from the border in question, the issue has been nationalized to great effect.
    — Ron Elving, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Of course the Empire didn’t want the powerful X-Wing falling into the wrong hands and tried to nationalize the company in service of the Empire.
    — Zarnon Kalgon, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
  • The more than 150 Catholic schools that once operated across the island were nationalized.
    — Peter Orsi, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2019
  • Now, in a world where governments are nationalizing wages and public services just to keep their economies afloat, such claims no longer seem far-fetched.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2020
  • At the time of Hebblethwaite's mass layoffs, the UK government had been urged to nationalize the company.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Russia’s actions to nationalize the planes still in Russia.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 7 Apr. 2022
  • This law required the U.S. government to nationalize the country’s silver mines and use the silver production to mint coins.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2021
  • The bloody 1980s war with Iraq saw Iran further nationalize its economy.
    — Nasser Karmi, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 May 2020
  • Where everyone loses me is with the idea that the solution to these maladies can be found in Washington or in nationalizing movements of the Right or the Left.
    — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The new ad is the latest sign that Republicans are looking to nationalize the governor's race.
    — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Last year a group of senators even introduced a bill to nationalize the pension funds, as Argentina did in 2008.
    — Axel Kaiser, WSJ, 2 June 2021
  • The action stemmed from Venezuela’s decision to nationalize foreign oil assets a decade ago.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • For Republicans who’ve been working to nationalize their races all along, the impeachment news couldn’t have come at a better time.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Despite those actions, Ms. Yellen said that the United States was not taking a step in the direction of nationalizing the banking system.
    — Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The Mothers’ Day massacre has been nationalized, and systematic kidnapping and torture has been added to the mix.
    — Margarita Herdocia, Time, 13 June 2018
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, has vowed to nationalize businesses that try to pull out of the country.
    — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The Kremlin has threatened to nationalize assets of corporations that leave the country over its assault on Ukraine.
    — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Allende’s plan, which nationalized all mines including US copper interests, quickly drew the ire of the US.
    — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 21 Apr. 2023
  • There were countries that were nationalizing their oil.
    — CBS News, 12 Feb. 2020
  • But in May the Ukrainian government seized the investment as part of its sweep to nationalize Russian assets within its borders.
    — Anna Hirtenstein, WSJ, 28 July 2022
  • Even so, the impulse to nationalize the problem will have its own, infelicitous effects.
    — Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
  • But in the mid-1970s, Burnham took control of the country’s resources, nationalizing sugar production as well as bauxite mining.
    — Gaiutra Bahadur Keisha Scarville, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024

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