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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
dehumanize .
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Examples
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While the "illegal" label dehumanizes immigrants, second-class legal status, perhaps even more dangerously, may paper over injustice, as long as the labor market takes inequality for granted.
Michelle Chen: Crab Industry Workers Reveal Injustice of 'Legal' Migrant Labor 2010
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* Court TV * reporter* says the mask "dehumanizes" the poor hero.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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Magazine joins other media outlets in pledging not to use a word that dehumanizes immigrants.
Sarah van Gelder: Words Matter: How Media Can Build Civility or Destroy It Sarah van Gelder 2011
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When a culture dehumanizes its constituents, its heroic, iconic or beloved figures and devalues them, the rules change.
Rev. Barbara Kaufmann: Bullying: Not Just for Playgrounds Anymore Rev. Barbara Kaufmann 2011
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Magazine joins other media outlets in pledging not to use a word that dehumanizes immigrants.
Sarah van Gelder: Words Matter: How Media Can Build Civility or Destroy It Sarah van Gelder 2011
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While their death certificates read "suicide," the real cause of death is homophobia -- and an intolerant ecosystem that dehumanizes them as people.
Rev. Barbara Kaufmann: Bullying: Not Just for Playgrounds Anymore Rev. Barbara Kaufmann 2011
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While their death certificates read "suicide," the real cause of death is homophobia -- and an intolerant ecosystem that dehumanizes them as people.
Rev. Barbara Kaufmann: Bullying: Not Just for Playgrounds Anymore Rev. Barbara Kaufmann 2011
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That genre sexualizes and dehumanizes early -- reducing even young adults to non-human objects.
Rev. Barbara Kaufmann: Bullying: Not Just for Playgrounds Anymore Rev. Barbara Kaufmann 2011
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When a culture dehumanizes its constituents, its heroic, iconic or beloved figures and devalues them, the rules change.
Rev. Barbara Kaufmann: Bullying: Not Just for Playgrounds Anymore Rev. Barbara Kaufmann 2011
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That genre sexualizes and dehumanizes early -- reducing even young adults to non-human objects.
Rev. Barbara Kaufmann: Bullying: Not Just for Playgrounds Anymore Rev. Barbara Kaufmann 2011
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