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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of westernize.

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Examples

  • There are greater opportunities for any and everyone in westernized countries.

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  • In a world with food shortages leading to riots, with crops being taken out of the food supply to turn into fuel, with obesity at an epidemic in westernized countries, with people being gulled and duped by flagrantly ignorant advice about diet, nutrition, and food, we need more understanding, innovation, and productivity and far less fear and nonsense.

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  • Bodily figures of Asians have been commonly said as "westernized" where we refer to on the contrary to stumpy legs or some stereotyped asian attributes though, western values shall be sought in western culture.

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  • This carving is not 'westernized' in any way, so you have to sort of become like another culture to understand.

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  • This carving is not 'westernized' in any way, so you have to sort of become like another culture to understand.

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  • They will cut their own relatives head off, or run them down with a car if they become too "westernized".

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  • Their outfits and garbs also look to be a result of the Edo Era before almost everything was "westernized" under the Meiji Era.

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  • I know that Bulgaria is trying hard to become more westernized and strives to be like America, but it's sad when becoming "westernized" means embracing huge supermarket chains that monopolize all the business and kill the "little men."

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  • I know that Bulgaria is trying hard to become more westernized and strives to be like America, but it's sad when becoming "westernized" means embracing huge supermarket chains that monopolize all the business and kill the "little men."

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  • An Iraqi immigrant, upset that his 20-year-old had become too "westernized," ran her over in a Phoenix parking lot back in 2009, killing the woman, charged prosecutors at an eye-witness testimony Tuesday.

    FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2011

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