pathologize
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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This great moment is that we can relax a little bit about some of these distinctions without needing to pathologize them.
From Salon • Sep. 16, 2022
By definition, then, being diagnosed with the disorder doesn’t pathologize “normal” grieving, because it’s focused on the abnormal.
From Slate • Apr. 5, 2022
Saying that someone is trying to pathologize authoritarian religion is like saying someone pathologized eating disorders by naming them.
From Salon • Nov. 28, 2021
“Once you pathologize someone’s eating, you can’t take it back, and you could be setting them up for a potentially fatal eating disorder,” Van Winkle said.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 15, 2021
Many hackers have noticed that mainstream culture has shown a tendency to pathologize and medicalize normal variations in personality, especially those variations that make life more complicated for authority figures and conformists.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
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