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

“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

That being said, looking for patterns of strategy and tactics used to dehumanize a targeted community the way the Nazis did can be instructive and an effective mechanism to raise the alarm bells.

From Salon • Jul. 31, 2024

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