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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of communize.

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Examples

  • The Czechs had been Nazified, then communized, their Prague Spring crushed by Russian tanks.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • July 23rd, 2009 10: 42 pm ET speaking of acting stupidly, how's our new communized health care package coming along? moe

    Obama stands by 'acted stupidly' comment 2009

  • A power grab by the federal government to control health benefits, treatments and Doctors under private or public plans which will guarantee a communized, health care, government delivery system within 5 years from y1.

    It’s not even a ‘Battle’ of the Signs. No contest. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

  • The Czechs had been Nazified, then communized, their Prague Spring crushed by Russian tanks.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • The Czechs had been Nazified, then communized, their Prague Spring crushed by Russian tanks.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • The Czechs had been Nazified, then communized, their Prague Spring crushed by Russian tanks.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner.

    Things One Should Not Forget « Whatever 2008

  • The Saudi government communized Islam, through its monopoly of both religious thoughts and practice.

    Religious persecution of Muslims in Europe? Not a sheep 2007

  • But Poland and the rest of Central Europe suffered under communism only for slightly over forty years; Poland was never fully communized economically (with private agriculture and with some services and retail trade remaining in private hands) nor ideologically (with a strong and independent Catholic church defying the Marxist doctrines), and moreover Central Europe has had long-standing ties with Western Europe.

    Out of Control Zbigniew Brzezinski 1993

  • The rural guards, the official thugs, the foremen, and the landowners used to say that, and yet they were precisely the ones who really wanted to communize women, as the Manifesto of Karl Marx said, because if they could they communized others: wives.

    CASTRO SPEECH ON ANNIVERSARY OF MARTI'S BIRTH 1967

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