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humanize

verb as in acculturate

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The magazine’s mission was to shine a light on the disease to humanize and restore dignity to its sufferers.

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My whole career, I’ve been pretty good at taking an unsavory character and humanizing him.

The level of understanding she had of Alani, and Whitaker’s desire to humanize her, made a character who could have been seen as unrelatable, ignorant or even irritating into a delightfully self-aware fan favorite.

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Schwartz also said letting the officer speak could serve to “humanize” him to the jury.

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The effort to humanize Dahmer is both obscene and, sadly, textbook.

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