liberalize
verb
Examples of liberalize in a Sentence
Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2024
Layered atop all of that is the 10-player limit on the ballot – which the BBWAA has sought to remove or at least liberalize but met with resistance from the Hall’s administration – and the rule that a player polling at less than 5% is eliminated from the ballot.
—Jim Alexander, Orange County Register, 23 Jan. 2024
Since 2016, the agency has liberalized its regulations to permit patients to consult a doctor through telemedicine and to obtain the pills without traveling to a clinic.
—David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
As the Nationalists liberalized and Taiwan moved to democracy, D.P.P. politicians sought to galvanize support by calling for Taiwan’s formal independence.
—Amy Chang Chien Lam Yik Fei, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
And there is almost a bipartisan consensus that the previous era of engagement with Beijing was a mistake, predicated on the erroneous assumption that increased trade with China would magically liberalize its political system.
—Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
As China’s economy liberalized decades later, skyscrapers and five-star hotels rose up in Shenzhen, looming over Hong Kong’s rugged and still-agrarian New Territories outside its central business district.
—Theodora Yu, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
Success will be measured not by the extent to which the United States can convince China to liberalize and embrace the U.S.-led international order but by Washington’s ability to maintain its economic leadership, strengthen alliances, and avoid catastrophic outcomes.
—Peter E. Harrell, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
In 2024, there will be another chance for proponents to try to liberalize the church's teachings.
—Sarah Maddox, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2023
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1765, in the meaning defined at transitive sense
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“Liberalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liberalize. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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