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Recent Examples of animalize Sociologist Anthony Cortese found that in popular culture black women are often othered, animalized and exoticized, associating women of color with primitivity or wild sexuality. Katie Edwards, Washington Post, 14 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for animalize
Verb
  • But Antonio distracts him by accusing him in the town square of sending Justina off to El Alcazar and poisoning his son.
    Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 12 Oct. 2025
  • One of the jurors said deliberations were poisoned by a belief among some jurors that a member of the panel had been paid off by Weinstein or his lawyers.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • We were crushed, humiliated, and broken, after our city was destroyed, occupied and erased from existence.
    Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Alarr’s unwelcome physical touching made Plaintiff feel offended, uncomfortable, humiliated and intimidated.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As my colleague Charlie Warzel wrote in March, on X, the White House is now a troll account, borrowing its snide visual language and tone from some of the internet’s most cynical spaces and deploying this style to mock and dehumanize people.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Some of these deportation efforts have been purposefully dehumanizing, like the opening of Alligator Alcatraz.
    William D. Lopez, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Brock Lesnar's Road to WrestleMania The Beast brutalized Cena this past Saturday night and defeated him with relative ease after hitting six consecutive F-5's.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Moxley, Claudio Castagnoli and Gabe Kidd brutalized Ospreay, targeting the neck which he was set to have surgery on.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2025

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“Animalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/animalize. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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