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A well-known figure in the news in Rio, Moscatelli calls the capybaras by human names to sensitize humans to them.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

In patients with ATM alterations, which should sensitize tumors to ATR inhibitors, the ORR increased to 26.1%.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2024

“With Rambo, we might be able to sensitize these children a little and show them that, yes, he is injured, he’s different, but he can do the same things as other dogs.”

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 11, 2023

While cheetahs usually keep their distance from humans, the state forest department has engaged a network of influential people to be cheetah “mitras” — Hindi for friend — to sensitize villagers to their presence.

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

Sometimes she would go into the workshop and help Arcadio sensitize the daguerreotype plates with an efficiency and a tenderness that ended up by confusing him.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The allergy -- commonly if inaccurately called the "red meat allergy" -- sensitizes people to a particular sugar, alpha-gal, found in mammalian meat.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2023

“This sort of display sensitizes the public to issues that were originally hidden.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2021

“I suppose all the mythology sensitizes you, prepares you to be impressed, to feel awe.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2019

A skillful installation sensitizes you to myriad variations in the character of works that only at first glance appear not to differ much except in size, from minuscule to monumental.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 11, 2018

Cancer may sometimes require the complementary action of two chemicals, one of which sensitizes the cell or tissue so that it may later, under the action of another or promoting agent, develop true malignancy.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

“Throughout California, throughout the West, throughout communities that have had wildfire experience, we are particularly primed and sensitized to that news,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025

The authors of these books regarded the fact that other people had become sensitized in their language use as at best a personal affront and at worst a conspiracy.

From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2025

These cells can be sensitized by a single acute exposure to xenobiotics, or by repeated lower-level exposures.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 28, 2024

A positive result signals the presence of IgE antibody, which "means you've become sensitized to the substance," he said, "but it doesn't mean you will manifest any allergic symptoms."

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2023

I was pushed back in my couch with an acceleration of one half G, but it felt more like 3 Gs to my sensitized body.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins

The findings also encourage the development of drugs that target ARID1A and related proteins as a way of sensitizing other tumors to immunotherapy.

From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024

"I don’t know what the solution is, but I suspect that over sensitizing ppl to arbitrary characteristics like skin colour may be doing more harm than good," he continued.

From Fox News ● May 25, 2021

It includes additional pulmonary surfactant genes that the ray-finned fishes lack, as well as DNA for specifying five toes, connecting nerves to limb muscles, and for sensitizing the brain to react fast.

From Science Magazine ● Feb. 10, 2021

“It’s all about sensitizing you to what is harassment,” Shatner continued.

From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2018

Turning his back on the affluent trappings of Duke, Farmer began sensitizing himself to the centuries-old plight of the the poor.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French