How to Use radicalize in a Sentence

radicalize

verb
  • The war has radicalized an entire generation of young people.
  • But that book radicalized me so crazy.
    — Olivier Lafontant, Pitchfork, 19 Mar. 2026
  • But that's one of the tools that's being used to radicalize these kids.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 13 May 2024
  • The gun shots demonstrate that the two sides are already radicalized.
    — Rena Gross, Billboard, 23 May 2018
  • What are the signs a young person is being radicalized?
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2026
  • Our children are being radicalized to hate our city and our country.
    — Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Resolved to that goal after a tragedy, Amy’s goal radicalizes her life.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The suspects were part of an online hate group that worked to radicalize young people, police said.
    — Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 4 May 2025
  • And his daughter, who was radicalized by his death, never stopped in her quest to garner justice for him.
    — Angela Helm, The Root, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Sanders has seen enough young men, in locker rooms and in his office, turn angry, bitter and radicalized.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 21 June 2026
  • He may not have been radicalized by a book or a video game or even a conflict with his insurance company.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2024
  • There is much more to be done to combat these radicalizing influences.
    — Richard Walton, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
  • Authorities said the teens met online, where they were radicalized by hate.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2026
  • Some Israelis are armed and radicalized and might also try to sabotage such a deal.
    — Frederic Wehrey, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Both shooters that day were radicalized online.
    — MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
  • The idea that someone could be radicalized by an AI chatbot is very real.
    — David Gilbert, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Law enforcement officials search for how and why the killer radicalized.
    — ABC News, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Our young people are being radicalized before our eyes and hatred is spreading unchecked.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • How was the suspect radicalized?
    — NBC news, 14 Sep. 2025
  • For the past five years, Democrats have been radicalizing on the minimum-wage issue.
    — Michael Saltsman, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2018
  • He’d been radicalized against tech in part by Edward Snowden and said that copyright posed a threat to free speech.
    — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • In this book, her first, Chu further radicalizes the argument.
    — Julian Lucas, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Such attacks might even be said to radicalize the very populations they are meant to terrorize.
    — Max Fisher, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2022
  • This website, which its founder has even urged be shut down, provides a home for white supremacists to recruit, radicalize and plan.
    — Karen Kornbluh For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 16 Aug. 2019
  • And antiwar voters will be radicalized by the dearth of democratic means to effect change.
    — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Those within the vortex of death get radicalized by the failure of government to tackle the problem.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Feb. 2018
  • And people forced into guerrilla fighting tend to radicalize—not always in good ways.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Like, it’s been so profoundly radicalized.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The texts of many shooters who have been radicalized online are highly referential to each other.
    — Ben Goggin, NBC news, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Having to face that kind of naked, aggressive power on the part of the police and of government agencies radicalizes one.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 3 Feb. 2024

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