editorialize

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Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-redup.
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti
Proto-Italic *didō
Latin dō
Latin ēdō
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Medieval Latin ēditorder.
English editor
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisder.
Old French -ialder.
Middle English -ial
English -ial
English editorial
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English editorialize

    From editorial + -ize.

    Pronunciation

    • (General American) IPA(key): /ˌed.əˈtɔːr.i.ə.laɪz/
      • Audio (General American):(file)

    Verb

    editorialize (third-person singular simple present editorializes, present participle editorializing, simple past and past participle editorialized)

    1. (journalism, intransitive) To introduce or insert personal opinions, judgments or subjective interpretations into news reporting or factual accounts where objectivity is expected. [from mid-19th c.]
      • 2007 May 26, Leslie Feinberg, “Care & prevention, not repression”, in Workers World‎[1]:
        Jerry Falwell's right-wing fundamentalist publication "Moral Majority Inc." editorialized that AIDS was God's "deserved punishments" against homosexuals.

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