dichotomize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of dichotomize
1600–10; < Late Latin dichotom ( os ) dichotomous + -ize
Example Sentences
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Let's let the scientists share some wisdom with us before we easily dichotomize the human race.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2016
Kissinger has never understood that to dichotomize values in a tough world inevitably means making the moral subject to the practical, not the other way around.
From Time Magazine Archive
We do not dichotomize this business of civilian and military.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many people dichotomize between the six-year-old and his father.
From Time Magazine Archive
Where action is a consequence of a philosophic system, the system seems to dichotomize into art and religion.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.
Yet ever since he became more of a serious, real-world dramatic filmmaker, Spielberg seems to have dichotomized reality and fantasy in his thinking.
From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2018
So we reject the old dualism, its dichotomized universe, its two sorts of authority, its prodigious and arbitrary supernaturalism.
From Preaching and Paganism by Fitch, Albert Parker
A dichotomized key is provided to aid in identification of stranded cetaceans and appendices describe how and to whom to report data on live and dead cetaceans.
From Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic A Guide to Their Identification by Caldwell, David
Redressing this balance in ways that avoid harmful and false dichotomizing, could serve several critical functions in the context of COVID-19, particularly in terms of avoiding growing inequity.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 1, 2021
Yet when language experts try to debunk the spurious rules, the dichotomizing mindset imagines that they are trying to abolish all standards of good writing.
From Slate ● May 31, 2012
Yet when language scholars try to debunk the spurious rules, the dichotomizing mindset imagines that they are trying to abolish all standards of good writing.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
I have been twenty-six years convinced that dichotomizing will not do it, but that the divine Trinity in Unity hath expressed itself in the whole frame of nature and morality * * *.
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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