militarize
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Offering them benefits and talks has had a perverse effect, Jaramillo said, prompting them to militarize to negotiate from a position of strength.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
“I hope they don’t militarize it,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2024
We should also be wary of governments pushing to militarize AI.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2023
“We’re not trying to militarize the church,” Marsh said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2022
Starting from this and with the methods and experiences attached to it, it was possible also for other countries, if necessary, to mechanize their politics or, as we say now, to militarize them.
From The New Society by Windham, Arthur
These programs represent a new and controversial approach to leveraging the natural world—one that, in essence, militarizes the environment.
From Slate ● May 3, 2017
The war meme also transforms societies, militarizes them, in ways that make war more likely.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 18, 2013
Small trench networks are visible at intersections on approaches to the city, indicating the area is militarized, but these have also been in place for many months.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
Meanwhile, the perversion of ordinary goods to serve a fully militarized state is encapsulated in the difficulty the boy has in finding white flour: None is available because it’s being used to stanch wounds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
These tableaus take place against the backdrop of an increasingly militarized vision of Christmas that permeates American pop culture.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025
What’s it going to take for these militarized Earthlings to realize they’re the baddies?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025
Uniforms are everywhere in North Korea, the world’s most militarized society.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
He denied that China was militarizing the disputed South China Sea, while asserting its maritime claims there.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
Their default is to frame the UAP matter in terms of security—a view the media often reinforces— thus militarizing the issue.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 2, 2023
These developments altered the nature of society in Africa, militarizing states and reorienting African trade.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
The deal was made with defense tech contractor L3Harris and Air Tractor, with the former militarizing the latter’s initial designs for a purely agricultural plane.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2022
Nor does preparation mean a policy of militarizing.
From State of the Union Address by Coolidge, Calvin
