as in to poison
to make (someone) feel or behave more like an animal than a human being
six months of solitary living in the jungle would animalize anyone
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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.
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Katie Edwards, Washington Post, 14 July 2017
Katie Edwards, Washington Post, 14 July 2017
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Kara-Murza, who had been poisoned in 2015 and 2017, presumably by Vladimir Putin’s secret police, was serving the second year of a twenty-five-year sentence for his public opposition to the invasion of Ukraine.David Remnick, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
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Nearly a decade ago the burrito chain dominated headlines for months when a string of norovirus, E. coli and salmonella outbreaks poisoned hundreds of customers.Beth Kowitt, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
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The whipping-sound phone app was well known among students and became a tool of racial torment used to humiliate and degrade Black students during the 2022-2023 school year, the lawsuit alleges.Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
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Young people will sometimes add someone into a group chat and then post an embarrassing photo to humiliate the person.Kara Alaimo, CNN, 25 Sep. 2024
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This dehumanizes older women, who are seemingly viewed as not requiring a body that may meet their feminine ideals and who are less likely to be asked for their input on reconstructive care.Tlalit Bussi Tel Tzure, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
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So, despite Trump's dangerous anti-immigration rhetoric and dehumanizing border policies, why are Latinos tempted to vote against their own community?Pamela Avila, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2024
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Scared for the victims and their families who were stalked and brutalized in the most vicious way.Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
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Amiri Baraka was arrested the night after Smith, for illegally possessing weapons, and he was brutalized, too.Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
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“Animalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/animalize. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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