sensitize
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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
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
Since assuming the papacy in 2013, Pope Francis has tried to sensitize the church to the problem of clergy abuse and passed laws to hold the hierarchy accountable for covering it up.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 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
In warmer months, people are more physically active, which sensitizes the body to the effects of insulin and improves glycemic control, he said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 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
Capsaicin, because it sensitizes the central nervous system, is best for simulating chronic pain.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 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
Once sensitized, people may experience allergic symptoms after eating foods such as beef, pork, or lamb.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 17, 2025
“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
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
In Cal’s own sensitized mind that suffering was unbearable.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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
