dehumanize
Example Sentences
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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
It’s a reminder that when someone tries to dehumanize you, laughing in their face can be a declaration of personhood.
From Salon • Dec. 8, 2025
“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
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
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