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- verb Present participle of
infantilize .
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Examples
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Isn't there a danger here of once again "infantilizing" women by saying they need "special" concern?
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We're "infantilizing" our taste sense - Artificial sweeteners are a hundredfold sweeter than sucrose (table sugar).
Hemi Weingarten: Artificial Sweeteners: 3 Reasons To Rethink That Diet Coke 2010
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Doctorow cites the iPad's inability to share content, and its "infantilizing" hardware as ways in which the iPad will stifle innovation.
The New Yorker Thessaly La Force 2010
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He says they do this either by putting men in "overly square" clothes that make them look like their own dear dads (this is where women will employ the aforementioned "too gay" accusation) or by "infantilizing" their guys, dressing them up like little boys.
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Reference to "adult" behavior infantilizing anyone who advocates for the middle class or lower income Americans?
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Chamberlain wrote: "The fact is that the American military presence in Afghanistan is infantilizing the Afghani people and taking away their right to self-determine."
Axelrod slams Romney 2009
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Do they treat them as whole persons, or do they use infantilizing language, or even worse, talk about them as if they were not there?
Marguerite Manteau-Rao: 3 Questions to Ask About Assisted Living Memory Care Communities Marguerite Manteau-Rao 2011
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The fact is that the American military presence in Afghanistan is infantilizing the Afghani people and taking away their right to self-determine.
Axelrod slams Romney 2009
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Do they treat them as whole persons, or do they use infantilizing language, or even worse, talk about them as if they were not there?
Marguerite Manteau-Rao: 3 Questions to Ask About Assisted Living Memory Care Communities Marguerite Manteau-Rao 2011
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Reference to "adult" behavior infantilizing anyone who advocates for the middle class or lower income Americans?
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