animalize
Example Sentences
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“Often, it is only by anthropomorphizing animals and animalizing humans that the fictions that necessitate human borders can be propped up at all.”
From Washington Post
Without overdoing it, good animal books humanize animals while animalizing humans.
From New York Times
The racially-charged descriptor has been historically used in the U.S. to animalize, degrade and dehumanize black people.
From Salon
Racism was a tyranny and an oppression that dehumanized—animalized—the “other.”
"I was not terrified at all but concentrate. disconnecting the heart from the brain, animalizing me," Emmanuel Wattecamps-Etienne wrote to an Associated Press reporter on Friday.
From US News
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