How to Use humanize in a Sentence
humanize
verb- They promised to humanize conditions at the company.
- The new publicity has helped to humanize the corporation's image.
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So embrace your unique voice and use it as a tool to build trust and humanize your brand.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
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The iron canopy bed from RH helps humanize the scale of the room.
—BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2021
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Easy to humanize his team putting more shots through the net than its opponent.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025
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Getting down on the floor with a dog humanizes the politician.
—Betsy Klein, CNN, 21 Oct. 2017
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Catherine doesn’t know how to make the nobles humanize the serfs.
—Alice Burton, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2021
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Shine a light on teams, celebrate wins and humanize your brand.
—Sarah Goodall, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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Brady has a new book out with recipes and workouts that almost humanizes his diet.
—Sarah Rense, Esquire, 19 Sep. 2017
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The baddie has to have something humanizing in him, and the hero has to have some flaws.
—Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
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It's humanized them, to an extent, but also kept them on a pedestal at the same time, if that makes sense.
—Robert Morast, Houston Chronicle, 1 Nov. 2017
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This is the moment to re-humanize the process and catch the great fits that data alone might overlook.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
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George Floyd's girlfriend took the stand to humanize him and give depth to his life story.
—Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 13 Dec. 2021
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Huseman fell back on job figures and dollar signs, but there wasn’t enough to humanize the project.
—Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2020
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This play shows us that in a really humanizing way.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 8 Mar. 2026
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But a part of humanizing us has to be rooted in the mundane and unglamorous, too.
—Taryn Finley, Refinery29, 14 May 2025
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Those charged with taking care of the widget try to humanize it, but the system constrains them.
—Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2020
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Was there any goal with this book to sort of humanize the people of Syria or the country as a whole?
—Audrey Gorden, RedEye Chicago, 9 June 2017
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One of the cops even places a hand on the robot’s shoulder, humanizing the display.
—Frank Landymore, Futurism, 12 Mar. 2026
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But what's brilliant is to humanize that, to build a whole character around the concept.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 23 Dec. 2020
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But Cersei's love for her children is the only thing that humanizes her.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 14 Aug. 2017
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The scene somehow humanizes Joel, while still making your heart break for Midge.
—Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2018
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Creative and well-thought-through bios humanize your firm and help clients feel confident reaching out.
—Peter Boyd, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
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One of the big themes in the show is humanizing modernism through what is happening during this time.
—Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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The podcast offers up some of these numbers while humanizing them with the person on the screen.
—Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
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My job was to humanize the data — to go out and tell the stories of the people living with what the data shows.
—Libby Peterson, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2020
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The artist believes that what people choose for these critical meals tells a story and helps to humanize them.
—Scarlet Cheng, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2019
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Still, our desire to humanize the cosmos, to find meaning in the chaos of the stars, seems to be permanent.
—Adam Kirsch, WSJ, 28 June 2019
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In dim light, cat pupils dilate into circles, humanizing their eyes.
—Tao Lin, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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The flaws are part of the man, and Eig sees humanizing King as a crucial mission.
—Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
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