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brutalization

American  
[broot-uhl-uhz-ay-shuhn, broot-uhl-ahyz-] / ˌbrut əl əzˈeɪ ʃən, ˌbrut əl aɪz- /

noun

  • brutalizations
    plural
  1. the act or process of making or becoming brutal, inhumane, or coarse.


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Those Black people who survived the living hell of the Middle Passage and then centuries of enslavement and brutalization were not an undifferentiated mass of brutes as conceptualized by the white popular imagination.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2023

The art, often stark but occasionally playful, addresses what Rosso calls “terricide”: brutalization of the Earth, women and Indigenous people, and cultures.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2021

Eloquent, brilliant and angry, this fierce analysis of “race” and the brutalization of the black body from the founding of America to this day is eye-opening, disturbing and incredibly important.

From New York Times ● May 25, 2017

“In order to have a society in which public issues can be openly and vigorously debated,” Alito wrote, “it is not necessary to allow the brutalization of innocent victims.”

From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2014

The increasing brutalization of the youth, so extensively discussed, is due mainly to the conditions prevalent in our industrial system, with which the wretchedness of the home is closely connected.

From Woman under socialism by Daniel De Leon

There is a peculiar elitist arrogance in those who discourse on the brutalizations of work simply because they cannot imagine themselves performing the job.

From Time Magazine Archive

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