Radicalize
verb
To cause someone or something to follow extreme political or social ideas.
The young man was radicalized in prison and emerged with hardline extremist views.
Often appears as...
- radicalize an individual
- radicalize a group
verb
To change something in a way that makes it extreme or very different than before.
The new policies have radicalized the company's business model.
Often appears as...
- radicalize a system
- radicalize a structure
verb
To cause someone or something to follow extreme political or social ideas.
The young man was radicalized in prison and emerged with hardline extremist views.
Often appears as...
- radicalize an individual
- radicalize a group
verb
To change something in a way that makes it extreme or very different than before.
The new policies have radicalized the company's business model.
Often appears as...
- radicalize a system
- radicalize a structure
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Pro Tip 1/3Context Matters
The word 'radicalize' is often used in political or social discussions about extremism.
The documentary explored how online forums can radicalize people.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotations
'Radicalize' usually has a negative implication, suggesting dangerous levels of change in beliefs.
Many worry that extremist rhetoric can radicalize vulnerable youth.
Pro Tip 3/3Use Carefully
Be cautious using 'radicalize,' as it can be sensitive or offensive due to its association with extremism.
The speaker was accused of trying to radicalize the audience.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Matters
The word 'radicalize' is often used in political or social discussions about extremism.
The documentary explored how online forums can radicalize people.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotations
'Radicalize' usually has a negative implication, suggesting dangerous levels of change in beliefs.
Many worry that extremist rhetoric can radicalize vulnerable youth.
Pro Tip 3/3Use Carefully
Be cautious using 'radicalize,' as it can be sensitive or offensive due to its association with extremism.
The speaker was accused of trying to radicalize the audience.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Matters
The word 'radicalize' is often used in political or social discussions about extremism.
The documentary explored how online forums can radicalize people.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotations
'Radicalize' usually has a negative implication, suggesting dangerous levels of change in beliefs.
Many worry that extremist rhetoric can radicalize vulnerable youth.
Pro Tip 3/3Use Carefully
Be cautious using 'radicalize,' as it can be sensitive or offensive due to its association with extremism.
The speaker was accused of trying to radicalize the audience.
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The path to ending...
I don't want to come out with radicalized youth and indifferent aged I don't know what the contrast The radicalized youth and indifferent people who are old like me. I want to come out with a unified country that understands that the costs that we owe are big, and our pockets are deep enough to match it.
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What it's like to be a...
recently told me, people don't actually get radicalized at mosques. They get radicalized in their basement or bedroom, in front of a computer. And what you find about the radicalization process is it starts online, but the first thing that happens is the person gets cut off from their community,
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How young people join...
and through a lot of the material and their tactics. They're very much a modern movement. One of the aspects is the internet and the usage of social media, as we've all seen in headlines tweeting and videos of beheadings. But the internet alone does not radicalize you.
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How social media can...
literally prostrating yourself in the street in front of these protesters in order to get them to go away essentially to say we will do anything to placate you just please stop protesting in public but these are people who have been radicalized because thanks to the
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Why was India split into...
emptied of old residents and filled with refugees. In the power vacuum British forces left behind, radicalized militias and local groups massacred migrants. Much of the violence occurred in Punjab, and women bore the brunt of it, suffering rape and mutilation.
Video examples
Karima Bennoune: The...
where he believes his nephew was radicalized during a youth program. But he doesn't just criticize the mosque. He also takes on the government for its failure to do more to prevent poverty in his community. Given his own lack of financial resources,
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Inside the bizarre world...
to march with torches in the name of the white race. She'd gone, in a few months, from Obama supporter to fully radicalized white supremacist. Now, in her particular case, she actually was able to find her way out of the cult of white supremacy.
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Economic growth has...
environmental challenges and, of course, radicalized terrorism. However, to the extent that we can actually solve the economic growth challenge, it will take us a long way to solving the challenges that I've just elucidated. More importantly,
Video examples
The Triumph and Tragedy...
for centuries more than half a dozen religions lived side by side in the indian subcontinent but by the mid-1940s religious extremists had gained power in local politics and stoked violence across the country egging on gangs of radicalized
Video examples
My descent into...
And soon, I became the leader of that infamous organization that was led by that man in that alley who recruited me that day, who was America's first neo-Nazi skinhead and who had radicalized me.
Video examples
The path to ending...
I don't want to come out with radicalized youth and indifferent aged I don't know what the contrast The radicalized youth and indifferent people who are old like me. I want to come out with a unified country that understands that the costs that we owe are big, and our pockets are deep enough to match it.
Video examples
What it's like to be a...
recently told me, people don't actually get radicalized at mosques. They get radicalized in their basement or bedroom, in front of a computer. And what you find about the radicalization process is it starts online, but the first thing that happens is the person gets cut off from their community,
Video examples
How young people join...
and through a lot of the material and their tactics. They're very much a modern movement. One of the aspects is the internet and the usage of social media, as we've all seen in headlines tweeting and videos of beheadings. But the internet alone does not radicalize you.
Video examples
How social media can...
literally prostrating yourself in the street in front of these protesters in order to get them to go away essentially to say we will do anything to placate you just please stop protesting in public but these are people who have been radicalized because thanks to the
Video examples
Why was India split into...
emptied of old residents and filled with refugees. In the power vacuum British forces left behind, radicalized militias and local groups massacred migrants. Much of the violence occurred in Punjab, and women bore the brunt of it, suffering rape and mutilation.
Video examples
Karima Bennoune: The...
where he believes his nephew was radicalized during a youth program. But he doesn't just criticize the mosque. He also takes on the government for its failure to do more to prevent poverty in his community. Given his own lack of financial resources,
Video examples
Inside the bizarre world...
to march with torches in the name of the white race. She'd gone, in a few months, from Obama supporter to fully radicalized white supremacist. Now, in her particular case, she actually was able to find her way out of the cult of white supremacy.
Video examples
Economic growth has...
environmental challenges and, of course, radicalized terrorism. However, to the extent that we can actually solve the economic growth challenge, it will take us a long way to solving the challenges that I've just elucidated. More importantly,
Video examples
The Triumph and Tragedy...
for centuries more than half a dozen religions lived side by side in the indian subcontinent but by the mid-1940s religious extremists had gained power in local politics and stoked violence across the country egging on gangs of radicalized
Video examples
My descent into...
And soon, I became the leader of that infamous organization that was led by that man in that alley who recruited me that day, who was America's first neo-Nazi skinhead and who had radicalized me.
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Quote examples
Christopher A. Wray
American Public Servant
ISIS uses traditional media platforms as well as widespread social media campaigns to propagate its ideology. With the broad distribution of social media, terrorists can spot, assess, recruit, and radicalize vulnerable persons of all ages in the U.S. either to travel to foreign lands or to conduct an attack on the homeland.
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Aisha Tyler
American Actress
I remember leaving the first 'Matrix' movie feeling completely radicalized, completely changed. I think we all, from our ordinary lives, like to think about putting ourselves into these extraordinary situations and wonder how we'd respond.
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Bassem Youssef
Egyptian Entertainer
Part of the reason why people get radicalized is because they feel they are disenfranchised; that they not there; that they are bullied. But if they are represented, they can't go and say to themselves: 'Oh, this society hates us!
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Marshall Curry
American Director
My understanding of environmentalism, of the things that radicalize people, of the ethics and effectiveness of different kinds of social protest have definitely become more nuanced and more informed, but they aren't much clearer.
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Michael McCaul
American Politician
You can have the best technology, but if you have an inside job of a worker that has access to the plane that's corrupted or bribed or radicalized, they can get a bomb on that aircraft and blow it up.
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James Comey
American Public Servant
The Internet offers the ability for people to consume poison and radicalize entirely in private, either through a device they're holding in their hands or inside their house.
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David Dellinger
Prison is what really radicalized me most deeply. I remember thinking, my God, these people did things that were no worse than what other people do. They're just as nice.
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Imran Khan
Pakistani Leader
These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.
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Pete Buttigieg
American Politician
When people are economically or socially dislocated, they are always more vulnerable to being radicalized.
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Reza Aslan
Iranian Writer
When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.
Quote examples
Christopher A. Wray
American Public Servant
ISIS uses traditional media platforms as well as widespread social media campaigns to propagate its ideology. With the broad distribution of social media, terrorists can spot, assess, recruit, and radicalize vulnerable persons of all ages in the U.S. either to travel to foreign lands or to conduct an attack on the homeland.
Quote examples
Aisha Tyler
American Actress
I remember leaving the first 'Matrix' movie feeling completely radicalized, completely changed. I think we all, from our ordinary lives, like to think about putting ourselves into these extraordinary situations and wonder how we'd respond.
Quote examples
Bassem Youssef
Egyptian Entertainer
Part of the reason why people get radicalized is because they feel they are disenfranchised; that they not there; that they are bullied. But if they are represented, they can't go and say to themselves: 'Oh, this society hates us!
Quote examples
Marshall Curry
American Director
My understanding of environmentalism, of the things that radicalize people, of the ethics and effectiveness of different kinds of social protest have definitely become more nuanced and more informed, but they aren't much clearer.
Quote examples
Michael McCaul
American Politician
You can have the best technology, but if you have an inside job of a worker that has access to the plane that's corrupted or bribed or radicalized, they can get a bomb on that aircraft and blow it up.
Quote examples
James Comey
American Public Servant
The Internet offers the ability for people to consume poison and radicalize entirely in private, either through a device they're holding in their hands or inside their house.
Quote examples
David Dellinger
Prison is what really radicalized me most deeply. I remember thinking, my God, these people did things that were no worse than what other people do. They're just as nice.
Quote examples
Imran Khan
Pakistani Leader
These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.
Quote examples
Pete Buttigieg
American Politician
When people are economically or socially dislocated, they are always more vulnerable to being radicalized.
Quote examples
Reza Aslan
Iranian Writer
When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.
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