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Carterize
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English
Etymology
From en Carter ize.
Verb
en transitive To make like former US president Jimmy Carter.
en Commercial West 163 1-13 8 1982 The latest evidence of an executive branch apparently determined to Carterize itself comes in the waffling over gasoline lead regulations.
en Ronald Reagan's crusade 327 Norman E. Wymbs 1996 Ronald Reagan, already under attack from news hounds and political commentators as being overly simple in his approach to everything, deftly avoided all their efforts to "Carterize" him and his Christian beliefs and cruised to an easy electoral victory.
en Meet the Press: Fifty Years of History in the Making 153 Rick Ball 1998 It would seem to me we'd be Carterizing Reagan policy.
en Presidential Transitions: From Politics to Practice 348 John P. Burke 2000 One Clinton strategist grumbled that with so many initiatives in play, "We're worrying about Carterizing ourselves."
Related terms
en Carterization
en eponyms