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Recent Examples of sensitize
Because so many people have potentially been sensitized to meat after tick bites but don’t know it, Platts-Mills and others have wondered whether there were unexplained deaths that were really severe reactions to a sugar found on mammalian cells, including those in red meat, called alpha-gal.
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Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 14 Nov. 2025
The district is investing nearly $400,000 of taxpayer money in efforts to sensitize students and staff to hurtful discrimination.
—Marsha Sutton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
The next step was to sensitize the plate in a darkroom by dipping it in silver nitrate.
—Anika Burgess
july 17, Literary Hub, 17 July 2025
Key Ingredients: Vitamin C, carnosine Best For: Sensitive or sensitized skin
Dosage: 3-5 drops in the morning
Size: 1 fl. oz.
—Deanna Pai, Vogue, 10 Apr. 2025
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Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 14 Nov. 2025
The district is investing nearly $400,000 of taxpayer money in efforts to sensitize students and staff to hurtful discrimination.
—Marsha Sutton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
The next step was to sensitize the plate in a darkroom by dipping it in silver nitrate.
—Anika Burgess
july 17, Literary Hub, 17 July 2025
Key Ingredients: Vitamin C, carnosine Best For: Sensitive or sensitized skin
Dosage: 3-5 drops in the morning
Size: 1 fl. oz.
—Deanna Pai, Vogue, 10 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sensitize
soften
Verb
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By night, the scene softens with storm lanterns lit by hotel staff, who also patrol the premises.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Mar. 2026
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To be more sensitive to modern audiences, O’Brien said that Howl’s revival would take fewer song requests while softening the onstage comedy bits, adding that its modern music and food menu of wings and flatbreads would also drive the bar’s success.—
Phillip Valys,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Sensitize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sensitize. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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