Examples of sensitize in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Francis did an about-face and apologized, and convened the presidents of every national bishops conference in 2019 to try to sensitize them to the importance of the issue for the church's credibility. — Arkansas Online, 19 Sep. 2021 Francis did an about-face and apologized, and convened the presidents of every national bishops conference in 2019 to try to sensitize them to the importance of the issue for the church’s credibility. — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2021 Nonhuman primate studies showed that the technique did not harm the eye, and also helped the researchers establish the proper dose of Chrimson4 to sensitize the retinal cells. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 24 May 2021 Meanwhile, a groundbreaking effort has been launched to help sensitize police to antisemitic crimes in the former East German state of Saxony. — Toby Axelrod, sun-sentinel.com, 5 May 2021 As Imam Meyer helped sensitize officials to budding religious extremism, the Ministry of Justice in the German state of Hesse started hiring more Muslim chaplains. — Isabelle De Pommereau, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Mar. 2021 There, the bits of genetic material cause cells to produce proteins that cannot cause disease but can sensitize and educate the immune system. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 15 May 2020 The distinctions between pain types are not clean: If left untreated, nociceptive pain may sensitize the nervous system, turning a temporary problem into chronic, nociplastic pain, for example. — Amber Dance, Scientific American, 20 Jan. 2020 With its tradition of presidential contenders meeting face-to-face with residents in relatively intimate settings, New Hampshire has a history of sensitizing candidates to the matters that are on its voters' minds. — Amy Goldstein, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Feb. 2020 See More

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