demystify
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“Since last July we’ve been participating in various efforts to demystify prefab housing for people in Altadena and the Palisades,” co-founder Caroline Paules said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Such emotional familiarity ensures that even a quick dinner over sandwiches in the park can provide us with conversational carte blanche, a space to decompress and demystify without judgment.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
The goal, he said, was to demystify those fascinating fungi that popped up on his grass after heavy winter rain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2026
"We're trying to demystify it, we're trying to explain how it works, what the benefits are and also what the safeguards are."
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026
I wanted to demystify the ANC for them, to peel away their prejudices.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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The movie demystifies what’s hard and rewarding about caregiving, thanks largely to Michelle’s incredible, nuanced turn as Vanessa.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2025
For the last two years, she and the Seattle-based retailer produced “Cook Out,” a video series that demystifies outdoor cooking and spotlights food purveyors from around the Northwest.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
The writer and director Lorna Tucker draws from rare archival audio and home movies, elegantly assembling a portrait that both celebrates and demystifies her considerable legend.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
“So much of this is about building a college-going culture. They, by definition, are letting students know that college … is absolutely achievable and it demystifies the entire thing,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2023
On his website, he describes himself as a "visionary for the 'Now Age'" who "demystifies spirituality".
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2022
But since the early 2000s, tattoos have been steadily "demystified" through a combination of celebrities and popular TV shows such as Tattoo Fixers and London Ink, says Rees.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Other recent studies have demystified the complexity of the feline mind, its behaviors and our relationship with them.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2023
Whereas most weird quantum behaviors are demystified by thinking of small particles as waves instead of minuscule balls, genuine quantum weirdness arises when you measure a quantum object.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2023
By placing artists in service of public venues, both urban and rural, it demystified creative labor and brought local residents in dialogue with the insular community of artists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
We had deconstructed the content of media's stories, demystified its modes of transmission and learned to do it all for ourselves.
From Open Source Democracy by Douglas Rushkoff
“We don’t have the money, but a lot of the work we do is political and civic education, demystifying power, and making people understand they have agency.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
There’s something very powerful there: She’s demystifying a process that can still be shrouded in unnecessary secrecy, and making a choice many women have at least considered.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
But Child became famous by demystifying it with her deep culinary knowledge, boundless enthusiasm, humor and honesty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
"It's really important that the curtain is pulled back from opera, demystifying what the process is and the many talented people who put so much time and energy and their talents into making an opera."
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2024
Both voices, those idealizing and those demystifying the past, should be heard: We enslaved part of nature and took it upon ourselves to annihilate animals or, worse, change their genetic structure.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
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