as in dehumanized
to make (someone) feel or behave more like an animal than a human being
six months of solitary living in the jungle would animalize anyone
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Our past, our lives, dehumanized into numbers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026 -
The guy’s ghosting of me also dehumanized him.—
Anna Holmes,
The Atlantic,
20 Oct. 2025
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How about the Hollywood know-nothings Susan Sarandon or Mark Ruffalo, who have so much to say about the suffering of Hamas terrorists but not a peep for people being brutalized and murdered by actual terrorists?—
Bobby Zirkin,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Jan. 2026
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The series explores death in ways that are almost unique to commercial television, without losing sight of the audience’s need not to be needlessly brutalized.—
David Faris,
TheWeek,
29 Dec. 2025
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They’ll be driven out of certain platforms; they’ll be made to feel unwelcome; they’ll be shamed in lots of ways, and humiliated.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
16 Jan. 2026
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Story just watched in person as his team beat Ohio State for the Big Ten title, destroyed Alabama in the Rose Bowl and humiliated Oregon in the Peach Bowl.—
Joe Rexrode,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2026
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For decades, coyotes were systematically shot, poisoned and trapped to protect livestock.—
Lisa Bloch,
Mercury News,
20 Jan. 2026
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It is inspired by a true story of the Angel Makers of Nagyrév, women from a small town in Romania who poisoned their mensfolk over 1911-29.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
15 Jan. 2026
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“Animalized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/animalized. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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