demystify
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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
He seeks to liberate Sondheim’s reputation from the encrustation of myth and to demystify his relationships, while offering a succinct analysis of his achievements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 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
"It is important to demystify surgeries that celebrities have and educate patients," he says.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 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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“When people can directly vote on a ballot that is in a language that they are more familiar with, it just demystifies the whole process.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 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
By being open about her autism, Woo defuses and demystifies it for neurotypical colleagues and clients.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2023
“Black No More” demystifies Harlem as a mecca by wrapping its arms around it, wiping off the glitter while celebrating its charm.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2022
Kantar applies AI to a bank of human emotions recorded on film and assembled in the cloud and demystifies our real sentiments.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2021
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
And if you’ve been on backlots or know people who work in the film and television industries, the magic of the moving picture may already be demystified.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024
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
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
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
Roosa didn’t want participants to get stuck, as her ultimate goal is creating excitement around space by demystifying it.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025
"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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