How to Use depoliticize in a Sentence

depoliticize

verb
  • She says we need to depoliticize the process by which judges are chosen.
  • The humanitarian aid groups want to see foreign aid depoliticized.
  • What are some of the efforts you guys are thinking about that might sort of depoliticize this?
    — NBC News, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Ranney has spent the last decade trying to depoliticize gun violence.
    — Deborah Kim, ABC News, 4 June 2021
  • Republicans cast the change as a way to depoliticize local offices.
    — Riley Bunch, AJC.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Instead of trying to depoliticize their field, a swell of scientists want to become politicians.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Some experts say the only way to achieve real reform is to depoliticize the health-care issue altogether.
    — Jenny Gross, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2018
  • But much of the content is depoliticized, especially relative to a daily newspaper or an evening newscast in the past.
    — Ross Douthat, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
  • While Josh has sought to depoliticize his businesses, his older brother remains an influence.
    — vanityfair.com, 7 June 2017
  • Biden’s task is to educate, persuade, and depoliticize at a moment when the nation’s crises are escalating rapidly.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2021
  • The wisest choice, where public schools are concerned, is to simply depoliticize public education.
    — Michael Farris, National Review, 9 June 2021
  • In the wake of the scandal, the governors announced wide-ranging reforms meant to depoliticize decision-making at the agency.
    — Paul Berger, WSJ, 31 July 2017
  • This is a highly political task that some states have tried to depoliticize by placing with nonpartisan commissions.
    — Melissa Mahtani, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
  • But at this point, any attempt by Facebook to depoliticize its platform is futile at best and potentially even harmful to users and its own bottom line.
    — Laura Forman, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Randall and Welser insist that their goal is to help depoliticize science, by pushing for more objective, reliable research.
    — Michael Schulson, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2018
  • In fact, depoliticizing our country will not only lead to better communities but to better politics.
    — John Hatzis, National Review, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Industry can depoliticize it and make water conservation a real issue.
    — Discover, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2012
  • The standing policy would help depoliticize the examination, the report said.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The host began by laying out the by-now-predictable playbook of Republicans and pro-gun advocates seeking to depoliticize the shooting.
    — Abid Rahman, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2022
  • In trying to depoliticize his treatment of Clinton, however, Comey seems to have created a new headache for the law-enforcement agency.
    — Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 9 May 2017
  • Boggs has pitched herself as a fierce advocate for depoliticizing American classrooms during her campaign.
    — Nick Sullivan, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Though most of the functions of the federal government have been depoliticized for more than a century, there are many ways a president bent on revenge could upend the lives of private citizens.
    — Byron Tau, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Diplomats supporting the resolution said holding the vote in advance of the report was meant to depoliticize the issue and renew the council’s mandate as a technical rollover move.
    — Farnaz Fassihi, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Alsobrooks vowed to depoliticize education in the county shortly after she was sworn in, but the school board has often been embroiled in controversy throughout her time in office.
    — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
  • To depoliticize virus control, bipartisan leaders can communicate the long-term economic benefits of virus control.
    — Jocelyn Bélanger, Scientific American, 9 Dec. 2020
  • This claim is usually employed to depoliticize an admittedly controversial issue and make disarmament seem like simple common sense.
    — John Carl Baker, New Republic, 14 July 2017
  • First, Kerry did not meet with Wang last time -- marking the introduction of foreign policy discussion into climate talks, which experts have urged both sides to depoliticize.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 6 Sep. 2021
  • After her swearing-in ceremony, Alsobrooks also vowed to depoliticize education, though school board debates have remained contentious and her critics claim that her appointees bear some blame.
    — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Over the course of the 19th century, these cities are really trying to take more control over the public’s welfare, consolidating their power over questions of health and trying to depoliticize the issue.
    — Karin Wulf, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Apr. 2022
  • During his confirmation hearings last month, Garland also pledged to depoliticize the Justice Department.
    — Grace Segers, CBS News, 11 Mar. 2021

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