humanize
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Instead, Iñárritu shoves in a limp subplot about a missing daughter to humanize him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
They came up with the stretchers as yet another way to humanize robots for a wide audience.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
The photos humanize Coltrane while intensifying his myth as someone in holy communion with the transcendent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
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
“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
Sidestepping the deification of his subject, Mr. O’Meara humanizes Prefontaine in his vexing contradictions, buoyant spirit and brutal competitiveness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 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
Like the chatbots humans “date” or the LLMs humanized by tech companies, Klara is imbued with personhood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
Counterpoint humanized publishing, revered its authors, honored and will live on in its books.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
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
The nearly autonomous facility allows scientists to grow mammalian cells from genetically humanized mice remotely and monitor stainless-steel bioreactors in real time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The characters in Stowe’s story, though stereotypical, humanized enslaved Black people for white nineteenth-century readers.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
The document encourages the AI to explore the idea that it is humanlike and experiences feelings, and uses excessively humanizing language for Claude “to be a good person.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
“And so the character is humanized because Dina is humanizing it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
The detectors can also be ineffective as a new crop of AI "humanizing" tools emerges that rewrite AI-generated text to make it appear more human-like, researchers warn.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
The interview quickly racked up over 1.1 million views in less than 24 hours and was accompanied by a flood of YouTube comments praising Owens for humanizing addiction and bringing hope to a polarized nation.
From Salon ● May 23, 2026
Tats joins me at a study carrel as I’m reviewing arguments against humanizing Caliban.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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