Definition of "balkanized" [balkanized]

• Simple past tense and past participle of balkanize. (verb)

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• "Affirmative action does not presuppose the desirability of what I called a balkanized society, nor is there any real danger that it will in fact produce one."
• "While the public school system should seek "to integrate children of all backgrounds into a diverse society," she said, having what she called balkanized schools, "serves to isolate them.""
• "And States could re-ordain themselves in various leagues together and regional working groups, and so on -- like the way the 'balkanized' USSR is going on."