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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

I spoke at local meetings and tried to sensitize people to the need to insist on accountability from law enforcement.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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

Since one cannot bespeak until one has been bespoken, until the telepathic potentiality has been sensitized by one clear reception, I had to get through to him first.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

These efforts required sensitizing all employees to their own personal prejudices and offending practices.

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2025

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

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