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
• 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
• 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
• However, that should not lead us to pathologize mental health in general.
  — Naz Beheshti, Forbes, 26 May 2022
• 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
• Smith, who famously crafted a new genre out of the one-woman show, seeks to personalize the headlines by making us reflect on our propensity to pathologize.
  — Sloane Crosley, Vanities, 19 May 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Both of these differences have been measure many times from the position of pathologizing neurodivergent people.
  — Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Through Marianne, the show depicts the complexity of a young woman’s sexuality with empathy, even avoiding some of the book’s tendency to pathologize her desires.
  — Eleanor Stanford, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• African American viewers were hungry for a show that authentically depicted the lives of everyday Black people, that didn’t pathologize them or shroud them under a veil of respectability.
  — Tanisha C. Ford, Time, 28 Nov. 2022
• The words associated with and available to the community, once limited largely to language meant to demean or pathologize, have expanded to include more neutral or positive terms.
  — Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 10 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• Caroline Hickman, a researcher on eco-anxiety from the University of Bath, cautions that the feelings of worry, grief, despair, and despondency associated with eco-anxiety should not be pathologized.
  — Tori Tsui, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2024
• As an executive and leadership coach, my goal is to go deeper with my clients and reveal what's under the surface—not to do personal archeology but just to reveal a little emotional vulnerability and to normalize, not pathologize.
  — Patrick Williams, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
• Much like weakness, gullibility can be used to pathologize people for understandable mistakes, misplaced bets, and desperate behaviors generated by the very effort to survive modern life.
  — Hannah Zeavin, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
• This is a prominent pattern in origin stories and conspiracy theories of diseases, which often pathologize exotic places and allege foreign malfeasance to make a new threat seem more comprehensible and controllable.
  — Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2021
• Nowadays, everything is so diagnosed and pathologized and categorized.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2023
• Fat discrimination is unacceptable and so is the scientifically debunked diet industry that continues to ridicule, pathologize, and obsess about fat people.
  — Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Teen Vogue, 29 Aug. 2019
• The opportunity to pathologize certain behaviors is appealing.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 28 June 2018
• These recommendations could pathologize normal growth and development.
  — Christine Byrne, Mph, SELF, 2 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024