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  • verb British Alternative spelling of banalize.

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banal +‎ -ise

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Examples

  • But plenty were happy to banalise crime wholly down to the level of the day-to-day.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Adam Roberts 2010

  • But plenty were happy to banalise crime wholly down to the level of the day-to-day.

    Un prophète (Jacques Audiard, dir; 2009) Adam Roberts 2010

  • "People banalise pollution because no one ever made the link ... between pollution, illness and death," said UN Development Programme coordinator Mathieu Houinato.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2008

  • "People banalise pollution because no one ever made the link … between pollution, illness and death," said UN Development Programme coordinator Mathieu Houinato.

    IRIN 2008

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