dehumanize

Example Sentences

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It’s a reminder that when someone tries to dehumanize you, laughing in their face can be a declaration of personhood.

From Salon • Dec. 8, 2025

“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

“They should not be taught as simply a problem or conflict but as people. Once you teach their history in context, it’s much more difficult to dehumanize them.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 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