humanize
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If America is to reach its 2,500th birthday, it won’t be because it avoided the future but because it learned to humanize it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Moscatelli tries to humanize the capybaras so that real humans become more humane.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
Lindstrom’s work aimed to inspire empathy and humanize those suffering in the margins of society, but it also catalyzed policy change.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2026
Then comes the pitch: pay to "humanize" the writing, a pattern experts say bears the hallmarks of a scam.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
My speech that night gave me a chance to humanize myself, explaining who I was in my own voice, slaying the caricatures and stereotypes with my own words.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Conservative lawmaker Evair de Melo said Flavio was "gradually introducing himself, including with a great deal of humility, acknowledging some of the mistakes his father may have made. This naturally humanizes his image."
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
The most notable addition to the story is a sequence depicting the Phantom’s humiliating past as part of a freak show—a clever innovation that slightly humanizes this opaque character.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
“You’re more likely to hear stories of mixed families … and that kind of thing humanizes the situation instead of turning it into a lot of abstract statistics.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2025
It humanizes the dog a little bit or makes them feel closer to their community, but it's a beautiful story to tell.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2025
And it humanizes them—which is ironic, because they’re already human.”
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
Both of these famous women have long fought to be humanized while also marketing an obscene amount of stuff to us.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
Each version was evaluated in humanized animal models of HPV-positive cancer and in tumor samples taken from patients with head and neck cancer.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026
Scars and suffering have humanized her image and widened her audience and power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
They are humanized as artists in their own right as opposed to robots in a moneymaking machine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2024
The characters in Stowe’s story, though stereotypical, humanized enslaved Black people for white nineteenth-century readers.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Glatzer: That’s a lot of what we’re dealing with too, is just humanizing the people who are villainized otherwise and reminding them of their own humanity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Instead of featuring humanizing details of extremists, stories focused more on the material harm experienced by the people extremists target.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2026
"Your AI text is humanizing," the site claimed, leading to a page where "100% unique text" was locked behind a paywall charging up to $9.99.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
After his turn humanizing Shakespeare in “Hamnet,” Mescal, vying for an Oscar nod for the film this week, will appear next as Paul McCartney.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
Tats joins me at a study carrel as I’m reviewing arguments against humanizing Caliban.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
