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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

This made it easier for businesses and social critics to propagandize against fatness because, simply put, the existence of more fat people opened up potentially lucrative opportunities for doing so.

From Salon Dec. 27, 2022

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

"But I warn you; if this is some scheme to indoctrinate me with the Ullr Company's side of the case and blind me to unjust exploitation of the natives here, I don't propagandize very easily."

From Ullr Uprising by H. Beam Piper

I think it is because we as a species yearn for that connection as much as we have been whipped up into tribalism and propagandized into tribalism.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2025

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

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

The Bell service ethos worked, and was often propagandized, in a rather saccharine fashion.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling

Wilson at first sought to stand apart from the propagandizing on both sides, and he waged a 1916 reelection campaign on the ultimately misleading slogan “He Kept Us Out of War.”

From Washington Post Nov. 2, 2022

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

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

This seems to me to be a simple statement of fact, not a piece of political propagandizing.

From New York Times Mar. 27, 2018

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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