humanize
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And so I said, “Let’s have George go to the worker’s house, the steelworker’s house, and humanize him and see his family and his children and see how he lives.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Moscatelli tries to humanize the capybaras so that real humans become more humane.
From Slate ● May 27, 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
Sidestepping the deification of his subject, Mr. O’Meara humanizes Prefontaine in his vexing contradictions, buoyant spirit and brutal competitiveness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 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
As with many of superheroes, Cassie has a tragic back story and so on, a generic burden that Johnson’s palpably awkward charm humanizes.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 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 nearly autonomous facility allows scientists to grow mammalian cells from genetically humanized mice remotely and monitor stainless-steel bioreactors in real time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
This protective effect was confirmed using an advanced humanized mouse model.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 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
“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
As Trump heads to Beijing for his summit with Xi, both sides will be looking for that humanizing moment too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 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
The interview is utterly anodyne, a doddering exchange of pleasantries and carefully selected humanizing anecdotes.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025
Tats joins me at a study carrel as I’m reviewing arguments against humanizing Caliban.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
