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humanize

[hyoo-muh-nahyz, yoo-] / ˈhju məˌnaɪz, ˈju- /
VERB
acculturate
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If America is to reach its 2,500th birthday, it won’t be because it avoided the future but because it learned to humanize it.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

“This attempt to humanize Robin, understand him for his good and his bad and try and understand that character as a person, was the instinct behind this.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

“We could make those connections. We could humanize a company into a localized market,” Oliver said.

From The Wall Street Journal May 13, 2026

Then comes the pitch: pay to "humanize" the writing, a pattern experts say bears the hallmarks of a scam.

From Barron's Mar. 30, 2026

“Is that really—” “Anything Jeremy can use to humanize you will help,” she says.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

Conservative lawmaker Evair de Melo said Flavio was "gradually introducing himself, including with a great deal of humility, acknowledging some of the mistakes his father may have made. This naturally humanizes his image."

From Barron's Mar. 11, 2026

The most notable addition to the story is a sequence depicting the Phantom’s humiliating past as part of a freak show—a clever innovation that slightly humanizes this opaque character.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 9, 2025

It humanizes the dog a little bit or makes them feel closer to their community, but it's a beautiful story to tell.

From Salon Feb. 9, 2025

The power of the waltz here is how it humanizes the space station as it’s about to be taken over by an inanimate AI, namely the computer called HAL.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 31, 2024

And it humanizes them—which is ironic, because they’re already human.”

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

Both of these famous women have long fought to be humanized while also marketing an obscene amount of stuff to us.

From Slate Aug. 5, 2026

The findings come from experiments using a humanized mouse model designed to mimic human disease.

From Science Daily Mar. 10, 2026

Scars and suffering have humanized her image and widened her audience and power.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 3, 2026

They are humanized as artists in their own right as opposed to robots in a moneymaking machine.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2024

The characters in Stowe’s story, though stereotypical, humanized enslaved Black people for white nineteenth-century readers.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Brilliant, elusive and charming when he wants to be, Hannibal may have come closer than any other cultural icon to humanizing this tribe of dietary renegades.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

“I think what my films are about is that search for my grandfather’s dentures, the humanizing narrative that bridges the gap between us and them and arrives at we,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times May 16, 2026

Neither she nor Wineman bothers to give Mag a humanizing backstory.

From Salon Apr. 5, 2026

"Your AI text is humanizing," the site claimed, leading to a page where "100% unique text" was locked behind a paywall charging up to $9.99.

From Barron's Mar. 30, 2026

Tats joins me at a study carrel as I’m reviewing arguments against humanizing Caliban.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali




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