Verb (used with object) : The controversy has polarized voters into proabortion and antiabortion groups. From Dictionary.com.
SCHNEIDER: They are trying to depolarize the political environment. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 11, 2005] Reference
AVLON: What the president needs to do tomorrow night is depolarize the debate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2009] Reference
No, Mr. Berlinski, nerves do not "twitch," but they depolarize and conduct current. From Wordnik.com. [The Memory Hole] Reference
In short, it was known that odorants depolarize, and thereby activate, olfactory sensory neurons in the nose. From Wordnik.com. [Linda B. Buck - Autobiography] Reference
This in turns regulates the ion channels in the cell membrane to allow sodium ions into the cell to depolarize it. From Wordnik.com. [ACM TechNews] Reference
AVLON: What the president needs to do is depolarize this debate, re-center this debate, and show that he understands. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2009] Reference
Those adjacent areas depolarize and then polarize slightly in the opposite direction, so as to stimulate depolarization in areas beyond. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
He has deep advantage in just a couple of months to depolarize the most contentious, and one of the most contentious issues in this decade. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2009] Reference
But it's up to the president to depolarize this debate by putting forward a bipartisan bill and showing the kind of leadership he campaigned on. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2009] Reference
So, he needs to restore his credibility as someone who can be a bridge builder, someone who can lead in a different way and depolarize this debate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2009] Reference
Effects of stimulation of the GABA receptor produces increased conductance of chloride ions intracellularly via the chloride channel thereby shunting electrical currents that would otherwise depolarize the membrane. From Wordnik.com. [Flumanazil] Reference
And I think they're both looking to depolarize the political environment a little bit, because if either of them does end up running for president, they have to somehow reach across that divide and pull in some voters from the other side. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 11, 2005] Reference
Cationic currents, which depolarize cells, reduced the NLC and its voltage dependent slope. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
This is because you're trying to get the membrane to depolarize during the refractory period. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
He needs to present a path for a return to fiscal responsibility to depolarize the health care debate. From Wordnik.com. [CNN.com] Reference
The second thing would be to depolarize every fixed religious idea in the mind by changing the word which stands for it. From Wordnik.com. [The Professor at the Breakfast-Table] Reference
A good liberal or conservative newspaper should be able to do that, sincerely, honestly, and with good will, to depolarize differences. From Wordnik.com. [MercatorNet] Reference
Political Party - We need more than two major parties to participate in the election and to depolarize the influence beyond two parties. From Wordnik.com. [newsobserver.com blogs] Reference
Because after the election, whatever the result, we're going to have to find a way to depolarize this country before it tears itself apart. From Wordnik.com. [clusterflock] Reference
When we can bow to the hawk within, and start to depolarize the internal conflicts that we externalize, we will risk the possibility of compromise as well as compassion. From Wordnik.com. [MoJo Blogs and Articles] Reference
Unlike other sensory receptors, photoreceptors in vertebrates depolarize and emit transmitters spontaneously and continuously in the absence of a stimulus, and this tonic activity is suppressed by light absorption. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
In some cases, they have to make extremes out of reasonable, critical propositions-the best way to depolarize politics, the post-liberalist assumes, is to decriticize and to promote depoliticization, now hailed as "moderation.". From Wordnik.com. [ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY] Reference
“It sends an electrical pulse into the motor neurons,” Allen explained confidently to his potential partners, “causing muscles to depolarize—basically contract and relax. From Wordnik.com. [Every Breath You Take] Reference
To substantially depolarize Congress, you need some systemic change that’s comparable in magnitude — messing around with who has dinner where or how often people fly home is just far too puny. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Pining For White Supremacy] Reference
And IRV wouldn’t help depolarize the US Congress. http://rangevoting.org/rangeVirv.html. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Pining For White Supremacy] Reference
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