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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

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

From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2022

“They do not have the right to propagandize their hideousness.”

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2018

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

From Uller Uprising by John D. Clark

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

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

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

Martinson, who was also a poet, narrates with fervor but also detachment; he’s recounting, not propagandizing.

From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2018

After a dangerous illness, which brought him to death's door, he did obtain his dismissal from the Jesuit order in April 1639, and went over France propagandizing.

From The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by David Masson


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