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- verb Present participle of
dehumanize .
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Examples
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But labor rights groups, including China Labor Watch, a human rights group based in New York, say they have documented what they call the dehumanizing treatment of workers at Foxconn.
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The people on both sides who slavishly follow the ideology WITHOUT remembering the humanity of those who believe differently only succeed in dehumanizing their opponants.
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There is no "supernatural" theme at all, including beings other than garden-variety humans, albeit in dehumanizing circumstances.
Five New Photos from Cormac McCarthy's The Road « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Junkies and desperate people in dehumanizing conditions without homes, hope, or the most basic resources for survival.
Boing Boing: August 28, 2005 - September 3, 2005 Archives 2005
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Members of our society often refer to politicians in dehumanizing ways (look to the comments on the Seattle Times about Sen. Murray or Gov.
Council Gets Racist Emails in Response to Arizona Boycott Proposal « PubliCola 2010
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A life Edwards describes as dehumanizing and empty.
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For the last five years, he's been a fixture on Houston street corners begging for money, a life Edwards describes as dehumanizing and empty.
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For the last five years, he ` s been a fixture on Houston ` s street corners begging for money, a life Edwards describes as dehumanizing and empty.
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With disgust, Arendt recalled the dehumanizing absurdity of practicing to shackle detainees, in preparation for the "big game" of shackling actual detainees.
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It may be dehumanizing, which is not a gender specific concept, because of the reference to cannibalism, but that has nothing to do with sexism lady!
The Rebel Yell 2009
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