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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
depersonalize .
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Examples
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The current health care system depersonalizes the doctor-patient relationship and "created a kind of 'system arrogance' in which the patient is seen not as a person but merely as a job to be done cost effectively."
Richard C. Senelick, M.D.: I Don't Think Physicians Are as Arrogant as You Do M.D. Richard C. Senelick 2012
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The current health care system depersonalizes the doctor-patient relationship and "created a kind of 'system arrogance' in which the patient is seen not as a person but merely as a job to be done cost effectively."
Richard C. Senelick, M.D.: I Don't Think Physicians Are as Arrogant as You Do M.D. Richard C. Senelick 2012
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But to exclude the experience of the individual, as so much of orthodox medical history has done, seriously depersonalizes illness, reducing it to a black box on a histogram.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Categorizing an emotional affair as an addiction is helpful in two ways: first, it depersonalizes the experience, making it easier to let go of, and it also provides some tangible steps a person can take to kick her habit.
Therese Borchard: 12 Ways To Recover From An Emotional Affair 2009
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Loretta Napoleoni, who worked in finance for many years, has a book out that depersonalizes the idea and applies it to an industry and our economic system.
Danny Schechter: Did Wall Street "Go Rogue" Or Was It Rogue Already? 2009
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I don't particularly like to use it, as it depersonalizes the whole blogging experience but sometimes it's necessary - there are some crazy people out there in the sphere.
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Loretta Napoleoni, who worked in finance for many years, has a book out that depersonalizes the idea and applies it to an industry and our economic system.
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I don't particularly like to use it, as it depersonalizes the whole blogging experience but sometimes it's necessary - there are some crazy people out there in the sphere.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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But I have always disliked the “Jane Doe” label, feeling that it depersonalizes the victim, though I have only asked one woman to decline the anonymity.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Anonymous Electronic Reactions by Students: 2007
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I think it is here I saw it noted that this personalizes it, I on the otherhand think this depersonalizes it and her.
The Ashley Treatment: A Feminist and Disability Rights Issue? 2007
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