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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
vulgarize .
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Examples
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Yet the only way in which it can be saved from being vulgarized is by some active undertaking of the intelligent, cultured classes, to hold it to its proper purposes.
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Yet it is hard to see why he was any more dangerous than Charles Darwin, whose theory, when distorted and vulgarized as the survival of the fittest, provided scientific support for Himmler's program to breed flaxen-haired demigods—so unlike the physique of the dear Führer and his closest associates.
Hitler's Golden Book Ferdinand Mount 2011
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The first oil shocks and gas-station lines in peacetime history; the first presidential resignation ever; assassinations and riots; failing schools; failing industries; polarized politics; vulgarized culture; polluted air and water; divisive and inconclusive wars.
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The first oil shocks and gas-station lines in peacetime history; the first presidential resignation ever; assassinations and riots; failing schools; failing industries; polarized politics; vulgarized culture; polluted air and water; divisive and inconclusive wars.
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Yet it is hard to see why he was any more dangerous than Charles Darwin, whose theory, when distorted and vulgarized as the survival of the fittest, provided scientific support for Himmler's program to breed flaxen-haired demigods—so unlike the physique of the dear Führer and his closest associates.
Hitler's Golden Book Ferdinand Mount 2011
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The first oil shocks and gas-station lines in peacetime history; the first presidential resignation ever; assassinations and riots; failing schools; failing industries; polarized politics; vulgarized culture; polluted air and water; divisive and inconclusive wars.
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Consumerism had vulgarized the art in museums, and works were no longer front and center in main-floor galleries but relegated to the dark depths in the belly of the museum.
Art for Art's Sake 2008
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Consumerism had vulgarized the art in museums, and works were no longer front and center in main-floor galleries but relegated to the dark depths in the belly of the museum.
Art for Art's Sake 2008
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Perrin says in the essay that he believes Williams en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Williams_ (UK_writer) is less famous than Tolkien or C.S. Lewis partly because he wrote fiction only for adults, not for adults and children: “All Hallows Eve will never be a TV special – or if it is, it will be so debased and vulgarized as to make most TV specials of great books seem works of astonishing fidelity.”
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From July 21, 2005: "I love thee also, Roberts nomination, because now we probably won't have to endure another bitter and vulgarized chapter of the culture war."
Bill Scher: The David Brooks Spin Machine: From Roberts To Kagan 2010
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