Instrumentalized in a sentence

Sometimes, too, historical memory is instrumentalized to serve the interests of the present.

Most significantly, antisemitism is being instrumentalized by radical activists and foreign actors to deepen cleavages in American society.

The collective-guilt mindset is generated not only by governments but is aided and abetted by superstition and sometimes instrumentalized by chauvinistic groups and organizations.

But we have gone far down a road in which both research and teaching are assessed according to their susceptibility to be instrumentalized in pursuit of narrowly economic, possessive individualist ends.

People who engage in instrumentalized racism do so not necessarily because they themselves are “racist” on an individual level, but because they believe that voters will respond — and perhaps only respond — to racism.

As it has turned out to be, the newspaper press has not by any measurable yardstick been a mass medium, but rather, it has served for most of its history as an instrumentalized predominantly urban based, elite to-elite medium.

For all the arguments put forth about the purportedly benign nature of language, language is a gesture that can affect the bodily functioning of millions of people instantaneously and can be instrumentalized or weaponized accordingly.