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propagandize

[prop-uh-gan-dahyz] / ˌprɒp əˈgæn daɪz /


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“Everywhere you look, there’s branding and advertising. It has the secondary or tertiary effect of causing people to then want to act out and propagandize themselves.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2025

Her work can sometimes feel relentless but her voice, while forceful, is too restrained and witty to harangue or propagandize.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022

Xi is ready, as expected, to propagandize China’s greatness.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2022

He is successful at recruiting the red priests to propagandize for him and is clearly moving toward better crime management before the slave masters attempt to sack the city.

From Salon ● May 7, 2019

The British War Office was, too, and made the most of the story to propagandize its tired veterans and its late-drafted youths who had been denied part in war by the sudden Armistice.

From The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Lewis E. Jahns

John Stuart Mill’s official defense of the East India Company propagandized such “improvements,” setting a trend for annual government reports on “Moral and Material Progress” in India, which were assembled without consulting Indians.

From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2022

As with any cultural shift, these new rules were propagandized, often by writers like John Dryden, the first Poet Laureate of England.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2019

In gorgeous, silvery black-and-white, it’s a rather lovely picture of bravery, and not much different from the propagandized images coming out of Hollywood.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 29, 2017

He said the building had become propagandized and not integrated into the life of the city.

From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2012

This was the last injunction a fellow journalist, propagandized into testy impatience with Ireland, gave me before I sailed for that bit of Europe which lies closest to America.

From What's the Matter with Ireland? by Ruth Russell

Because it provides both centralization and some degree of anonymity, the Telegram channel format lends itself to the interdependent activities of propagandizing and profiteering.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2022

There is no propagandizing this playing field ostracism, no explaining away the sports world’s recoil from him.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2022

YouTube and Instagram were a powerful organ for propagandizing children and teenagers.

From Salon ● May 26, 2019

Many dismissed it as lyrical, propagandizing tripe, but for me the warmth, humor and serenity of Varda’s storytelling are hard-earned and anything but simple-minded.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2019

Their propagandizing zeal soon exposed them to the wrath of an ignorant populace and the contempt of the educated; and thus it was that in A.D.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various


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