dehumanize
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The projects seek to home in on shared values and avoid works that dehumanize other people, she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
“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
That inspired Juson to juxtapose the humanity of Black people against the words that sought to dehumanize them.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 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
Treating it as such eventually dehumanizes the very people we are trying to help.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2022
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 Bruce Sterling
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
There's such a complicated relationship between Black America, loving this country, and being so dehumanized through time.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2024
“And the hostages have been dehumanized every day since. But that cannot be a license to dehumanize others.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
“Migrants are dehumanized and considered as nothing more than potential labor, entitled only to precarious regularization offers,” the French association said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 6, 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
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
What they refrain from hurling in that moment, or at any point throughout “Welcome to Derry,” is a dehumanizing slur splashed all over the pages of the original “It.”
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 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
It is dehumanizing, for it forces one to adapt by becoming more self- contained and insulated.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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