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 call on the Polish side not to escalate the situation and not use it to militarize the border area,” Glaz said.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 4, 2023

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

From Scientific American ● Jul. 27, 2023

You can make a soldier, and a good soldier, of a humorist; but you cannot militarize him.

From England and the War by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

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

The president also flies on militarized Boeing 757s when he travels to airports with runways too short for the larger 747.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 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

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

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

Clements, when I contacted him later, told me that the Providence Police Department possessed no such vehicle, “basically because of the optics of militarizing local police.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2020

Nor does preparation mean a policy of militarizing.

From State of the Union Address by Calvin Coolidge