dehumanize
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“We need to support artists, not dehumanize them.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
Social media has a way of exacerbating preexisting social tensions and divisions, making it easier to dehumanize the other side and engage in a kind of verbal warfare.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2025
How far are we willing to go to utterly dehumanize ourselves?
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2024
Ms. Olson added in a statement that the verdict and the damages sent “the clear message that truth matters, that facts matter, and that you can’t dehumanize and damage someone to suit your own purposes.”
From New York Times ● May 26, 2024
Treating differences as a threat enables one society to dehumanize the other.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
This only delegitimizes and dehumanizes Palestinian voices and stories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2023
“The use of the word ‘inmate’ further dehumanizes and demoralizes them,” he said in Ms. Hochul’s press release.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2022
“It really dehumanizes the events, the consequences of shootings, and makes it all into a joke,” said Whitney Phillips, a longtime disinformation researcher.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
Twitter prohibits language that dehumanizes people on the basis of religion and national origin.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2021
The wonderful device meant to enrich life has become a weapon which dehumanizes people.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce
Because when you allow people to be dehumanized, you stop caring about them — and Reiner was not about to let us stop caring.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
The press corps has a job to do, but observers say its presence and callous pursuit of images that will sell can make immigrants feel dehumanized.
From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2025
“And the hostages have been dehumanized every day since. But that cannot be a license to dehumanize others.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
In Season 2, Thorfinn is sold off into slavery where he is dehumanized further, uttering the gut-wrenching line, “Not a single good thing has happened to me in my entire life.”
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2023
“People as far on the fringes as you can get, completely dehumanized by ‘normal’ society.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
Pope Leo XIV on Monday warned that AI risked enshrining “an anti-human vision,” replacing jobs with dehumanizing work and consuming vast amounts of water and energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Detainees there have long said the practice is dehumanizing and invasive.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
They added that they "oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people" and "pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence".
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2025
“The entire process of getting and keeping an entry-level job has become a grueling and dehumanizing ordeal over the past decade,” the author writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
We had to participate in these moronic, dehumanizing, and totally awkward “team building” exercises.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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