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

Others, like Odisha, have supplemented legal efforts by setting up memorials to victims at police stations in a bid to sensitize people.

From New York Times • May 13, 2023

To Bryant, having the national union host “Working” is a worthy extension of the foundation’s mission — and another way to sensitize Americans to the impact of unions.

From Washington Post • Sep. 7, 2021

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