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humanize

[hyoo-muh-nahyz, yoo-] / ˈhju məˌnaɪz, ˈju- /
VERB
acculturate
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They came up with the stretchers as yet another way to humanize robots for a wide audience.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

You really humanize the young actors in “Hollywood, Ending” which, unfortunately, is a unique thing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 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

“This attempt to humanize Robin, understand him for his good and his bad and try and understand that character as a person, was the instinct behind this.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

After a lovely visit to Maer a few weeks before the wedding, he told Emma that she would have to humanize him.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

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

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

The key to making this work — which is to say making us care — is the performance of Groff, who humanizes Frank’s choices without sentimentalizing his arc.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024

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

“And so the character is humanized because Dina is humanizing it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

In experiments using mice with humanized immune systems, described in Nature, the team successfully used the method against aggressive leukemia, multiple myeloma, and even a solid tumor.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 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

In the Vanity Fair interview, Mr. Altman seemed to put an odd and repeated emphasis on how much he loves his children, as if he sensed this as a humanizing tool.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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

“I think what my films are about is that search for my grandfather’s dentures, the humanizing narrative that bridges the gap between us and them and arrives at we,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 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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