militarize

As a result, it is unclear how the U.S. or the International Atomic Energy Agency would verify that the Saudis don’t militarize their program.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

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

We should also be wary of governments pushing to militarize AI.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2023

“There’s no reason to militarize the situation,” said Gavan of the coast guard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2021

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 Arthur Windham

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

He celebrated a good year in 1937 because, as Germany militarized, everyone needed paper for their windows to conduct blackout exercises.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

The E-4B is a militarized version of Boeing’s 747 aircraft, and is designed to withstand electromagnetic pulses and the heat of a nuclear attack.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2026

I practice mostly with a gun, but they reserve an hour a day for specialty weapons, which means I get to use my Mockingjay bow, Gale his heavy militarized one.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

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

“We ain’t militarizing no police, we ain’t sending no tanks in here,” Lewis said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2023

These developments altered the nature of society in Africa, militarizing states and reorienting African trade.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

From both these sources the foremost workers were sent to the front, and there built the Red Army after their own likeness and image—educating, hardening, and militarizing the peasant mass.

From Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) by Leon Davidovich Trotzky