How to Use pathologize in a Sentence
pathologize
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To pathologize your own creative frustration feels to me like an act of ego.
—Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 5 Dec. 2019
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That is just another way to pathologize Black people and blame us for slavery’s evilness.
—WIRED, 21 Sep. 2022
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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
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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
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However, that should not lead us to pathologize mental health in general.
—Naz Beheshti, Forbes, 26 May 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Nowadays, everything is so diagnosed and pathologized and categorized.
—Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2023
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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
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The opportunity to pathologize certain behaviors is appealing.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 28 June 2018
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These recommendations could pathologize normal growth and development.
—Christine Byrne, Mph, SELF, 2 Feb. 2023
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