All of these examples appear to have the same context: bringing something to the masses, just like a factory produced drug or can of corn. If you look at the G

All of these examples appear to have the same context: bringing something to the masses, just like a factory produced drug or can of corn. If you look at the Google search recommendations after typing in the word "democratize," for example, you get people trying to understand what it means to "democratize finance" I don't see these results (Google search results are personalized). I guess I took for granted that the meaning of the word was well understood or that people would look up words they thought were being used in an odd way.