dehumanize

Example Sentences

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“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

As the documentary outlines, the building of that “state-of-the-art” penitentiary in the middle of the redwood forest in the northernmost part of California helped dehumanize those housed within its walls.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2025

But history also shows us what happens when we dehumanize, depersonalize.

From Salon • May 26, 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