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From editorial +‎ -ize.

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

  1. To express one's opinion as if in an editorial, or as if it were an objective statement. [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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