dehumanize
Example Sentences
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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
“When it becomes a talking point like this, we dehumanize and villainize other human beings.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
