humanize
verb (used with object)
to make humane, kind, or gentle.
was humanizing
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past progressiveof humanize.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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My approach was humanizing these themes — putting a real family/human face behind these issues.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2022
What appealed to me was humanizing these men that are looked at as deities, almost, by some.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2021
Some of the singers were pretty bad, which was humanizing, but only if you knew they were celebs.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2020
What the show got right was humanizing the immigrant plight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2017
It was humanizing for the children, this association of such a number together, though they ran only a little less wildly than those who had heretofore been born in the isolated caves.
From The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man by Stanley Waterloo
