How to Use pathologize in a Sentence

pathologize

verb

• To pathologize your own creative frustration feels to me like an act of ego.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 5 Dec. 2019
• Try not to pathologize past behaviors, like the conflict avoidance.
  — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2025
• However, that should not lead us to pathologize mental health in general.
  — Naz Beheshti, Forbes, 26 May 2022
• In the second, the rapists are so numerous that any attempt to pathologize them becomes fruitless.
  — Gaby Wood, Vogue, 21 Feb. 2026
• That is just another way to pathologize Black people and blame us for slavery’s evilness.
  — WIRED, 21 Sep. 2022
• Yet many mental-health experts say that to pathologize this conduct is to fail to deal with the underlying causes.
  — Elizabeth Bernstein, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2017
• This is not to pathologize conspiracy believers, who, in any case, are hard to pigeonhole.
  — Keith Kloor, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2024
• Still, many people, including those in the fat acceptance movement, do not believe their bodies should be pathologized.
  — Andrea Kane, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
• His mother pathologizing him as somewhat of a sociopath and planting that seed in his head is the bigger issue with Benton.
  — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 19 Mar. 2026
• In a way we are called to do similar work with types, with the objective being to stop pathologizing the ones that might heal us or rescue us from neurosis.
  — Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
• The problems are pathologized as individual problems, and then we get sold back solutions.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2026
• If programs pathologize some teen behaviors, parents are often frightened, leaving them to feel as if sending their kid away is their only option.
  — Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
• If programs pathologize some teen behaviors, parents are often frightened, leaving them to feel as if sending their kid away is their only option.
  — USA Today, 8 Dec. 2022
• But a lack of clear guidelines around eco-anxiety and climate change means that many therapists pathologize their clients’ anxiety, or treat it as an unhealthy response.
  — Isobel Whitcomb, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2021
• But of course a blanket designation of obesity as an illness unfairly pathologizes all large bodies.
  — Erica Sloan, SELF, 26 Mar. 2025
• On the one hand, Krafft-Ebing set the stage for scholars to pathologize anyone whose erotic interests strayed from the heteronormative.
  — Guest Blogger, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2013
• Both of these differences have been measure many times from the position of pathologizing neurodivergent people.
  — Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• The film, in which each of Simmons’s accusers affirms her prior affection for the mogul and love of black men in general, doesn’t set out to pathologize an entire demographic.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 1 June 2020
• Black families deserve the freedom to show up for their children without their love, creativity or generosity being pathologized.
  — Essence, 11 May 2026
• Some experts are calling for more investment and research into drugs for weight loss and obesity, but critics argue that doing so may unjustly pathologize and stigmatize weight.
  — Yasmin Tayag, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2021
• Soufan, however, passes over almost all discussion of religion and tends to pathologize religious sentiment in glib tones.
  — Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
• The two were easy scapegoats in a media culture and news environment that often pathologized Black masculinity as deviant and dangerous.
  — Brandon Harris, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
• He has been adored, sanitized, revived, pathologized, sentimentalized, and combed for polite company.
  — Literary Hub, 26 June 2026
• So charts meant to protect children’s health may be failing them across the globe, missing growth disorders in tall populations while pathologizing normal development in shorter ones.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
• Although the decluttering movement can sometimes pathologize a close relationship with objects, our connection with our belongings is not to be dismissed.
  — Britt Peterson, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
• Nowadays, everything is so diagnosed and pathologized and categorized.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2023
• This approach to archival material thus wrestles with a disturbing present in which family dispossession is both normalized and pathologized in the media every single day.
  — Literary Hub, 8 June 2026
• There can be a tendency to defend every aspect of our experiences, actions, behaviors and beliefs because of the external forces in this society that seek to pathologize and destroy us.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2022
• Remember, too, that many of the things these influencers pathologize—occasional bloating, imperfect skin, feeling tired—are completely normal and nothing to worry about.
  — Christine Byrne, Outside Online, 8 July 2021
• Each essay is a banger, exploring sometimes humorous, often heartbreaking themes, from growing up in hostile territory to looking for yourself in films that exclude and pathologize queerness.
  — Grant Sutton, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2022