sensitize

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In patients with ATM alterations, which should sensitize tumors to ATR inhibitors, the ORR increased to 26.1%.

From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2024

While cheetahs usually keep their distance from humans, the state forest department has engaged a network of influential people to be cheetah “mitras” — Hindi for friend — to sensitize villagers to their presence.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2022

Or you can sensitize yourself to the volume of the space around things; to the emptiness, the absence.

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2022

Such molecules travel throughout the body, which means that, as signatures of these cells, they “can sensitize the immune system from a distance,” Mallone says.

From Scientific American • Sep. 14, 2021

Sometimes she would go into the workshop and help Arcadio sensitize the daguerreotype plates with an efficiency and a tenderness that ended up by confusing him.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez