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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
depersonalize .
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Examples
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I shall also contend that this negotiable (or transferable) debt - that is, 'depersonalized' debt that can be used as means of payment to a third party - is a form of money which is specific to capitalism. "(see Ingham 1999).
Limited, Inc. roger 2010
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I shall also contend that this negotiable (or transferable) debt - that is, 'depersonalized' debt that can be used as means of payment to a third party - is a form of money which is specific to capitalism. "(see Ingham 1999).
Limited, Inc. roger 2010
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I remember once a fellow university student complaining on Facebook about how he felt depersonalized online -- being reduced to just a few lists: music I like, movies I like, etc.
Dyane Jean François: How Internet Tools Emphasize Our Priorities Dyane Jean François 2011
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Its cadaverous Borg villains are depersonalized members of a cybernetically unified mind.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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The women no longer appear as depersonalized objects flattened by the photographic medium and clinical setting.
G. Roger Denson: "Old," "Crazy" and "Hysterical." Is That All There Is? G. Roger Denson 2011
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To put it straightforwardly, and perhaps a little cynically, in the past children used to be regarded as investments that provided their parents with means of subsistence in old age ... whereas today's anonymous system makes all workers pay for the pensions of all retirees in an utterly depersonalized manner.
Have More Children?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I depersonalized from myself and thought that I had embodied the spirit of John Lennon, and spoke to my friends as if I were him.
Twenty-three-year-olds shouldn't be writing memoirs (Ch 3) Robert David Moseley 2011
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Would they disappear in a depersonalized collective?
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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We are trying to take this increasingly depersonalized, rapid-fire, bureaucratic world and make it feel like home again.
Courtney E. Martin: Do It Anyway: The Top 10 Ways that the Next Generation is Shifting Activism Courtney E. Martin 2010
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Regardless of what you think about the job (temporary, contractually a quagmire, and possibly vague in its mission) or the campaign (missing some basic social media fundamentals, mysterious in its process, depersonalized), the gimick of the search has splash landed as one of the top 10 topics we wine bloggers talk about.
A Summer of Social Media in Wine « California Life: Better Than Happy Hour 2009
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