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Recent Examples of sensitize
Centella asiatica brings relief by helping calm inflammation and support the skin barrier, which is especially important when skin feels sensitized or stressed.
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Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 15 Feb. 2026
By now too many of us are wary of what’s being sold — sensitized by two years of deepfakes and soft slop, chastened by two decades of social media and rage-farming.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 9 Feb. 2026
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.
—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
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Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 15 Feb. 2026
By now too many of us are wary of what’s being sold — sensitized by two years of deepfakes and soft slop, chastened by two decades of social media and rage-farming.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 9 Feb. 2026
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sensitize
soften
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Inside, its modernist lines are softened by lush textiles and the soft curves of furnishings from Urquiola’s designs for Italian brands such as Cassina and Molteni, as well as the vertical gardens developed by botanist Patrick Blanc.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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Reports suggest OpenAI's financials are comparatively weaker and that secondary market demand for its shares has softened—while competition for Anthropic secondary shares has been described as fierce.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
2 June 2026
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“Sensitize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sensitize. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.
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