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Recent Examples of animalize Sociologist Anthony Cortese found that in popular culture black women are often othered, animalized and exoticized, associating women of color with primitivity or wild sexuality. Katie Edwards, Washington Post, 14 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for animalize
Verb
  • Until Henry momentarily excuses himself from the table, that is, and the person or persons behind these winky-wink messages tell her to poison Henry ASAP or the menacing guy currently hiding in her apartment will kill her boy.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Calls to poison control centers for pediatric melatonin ingestion increased 530 percent between 2012 and 2021, according to one analysis published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 8 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • There was a period when Broadway creators thought the only way to get a performance was to humiliate a person.
    Mark Seliger, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2025
  • An investigation of at least eight fraternities found that members humiliated students through means like beating them with paddles or forcing potential recruits to eat live fish and drink urine, according to court filings.
    Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Empathy disappears, justice is dismissed, and the people who live in the land are dehumanized.
    David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
  • School staff wouldn't face punishment For using students' incorrect pronouns under bill Another Iowa student, 14-year-old Berry Stevens, who uses they/them pronouns, said the bill allowed adults and students in schools to go out of their way to dehumanize others.
    Sabine Martin, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • There were images of riots, burning cities and Black people brutalizing white people.
    James Bandler, ProPublica, 25 Mar. 2025
  • That morning, Laken was viciously attacked, assaulted, beaten, brutalized, and horrifically murdered.
    TIME Staff, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025

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“Animalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/animalize. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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