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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
militarize .
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Examples
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This bill ties the hands of law enforcement, militarizes counterterrorism on our own soil, and makes us less safe.
Rep. Hank Johnson: Reject Indefinite Detention; Defend the Constitution Rep. Hank Johnson 2011
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This bill ties the hands of law enforcement, militarizes counterterrorism on our own soil, and makes us less safe.
Rep. Hank Johnson: Reject Indefinite Detention; Defend the Constitution Rep. Hank Johnson 2011
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This bill ties the hands of law enforcement, militarizes counterterrorism on our own soil, and makes us less safe.
Rep. Hank Johnson: Reject Indefinite Detention; Defend the Constitution Rep. Hank Johnson 2011
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This bill ties the hands of law enforcement, militarizes counterterrorism on our own soil, and makes us less safe.
Rep. Hank Johnson: Reject Indefinite Detention; Defend the Constitution Rep. Hank Johnson 2011
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Yet, the threat of military action, or rather the bluff, serves a purpose: Threats of military action militarizes the atmosphere.
Trita Parsi: Netanyahu and Threat of Bombing Iran -- The Bluff that Never Stops Giving? 2009
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I guess where some poets part way is with the question of bilingualism, a phenomenon that baffles linguists, but militarizes knee-jerk liberal poets like me.
on the ground in berlin : Jeffrey McDaniel : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Any preference there about militarizing entire nations with our presence, if that's the way one militarizes?
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JROTC also runs a Middle School Cadet Corp for children as young as 11, that militarizes them even before they graduate elementary school.
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If the US leads to war, the world militarizes and arms itself.
North Korean Nuclear Test Marks another Failure of Bush, Republicans and PNAC/NeoCons 2006
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It militarizes the situation and makes the prospect of great power conflict over Taiwan a very real possibility.
Taiwan: the Tail that Wags Dogs Michael Turton 2006
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