pathologize
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Not to pathologize being alone; I love it and often prefer it.
From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2023
This new book offers “a compilation of research and thinking on some pernicious and persistent myths that perpetuate anti-fatness, disregard for fat people’s humanity, and pathologize our bodies.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 16, 2023
It's really important that we don't pathologize aspects of their lives without also putting them in boxes.
From Salon • Sep. 16, 2022
At the same time, critics are correct that we need to take care not to pathologize bereavement.
From Slate • Apr. 5, 2022
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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