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  • verb Alternative spelling of depersonalize.

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  • verb make impersonal or present as an object

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Examples

  • "depersonalise" discussions on functionality and allow the designers to focus on designing for the personas. you can also find the personas in the list of deliverables:

    semantic weltbild 2.0 (Building the Semantic Web is easier together) 2010

  • People have strongly held views, need to depersonalise disputes, constructive criticism.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Mia 2009

  • People have strongly held views, need to depersonalise disputes, constructive criticism.

    Notes from the closing plenary, MW2009 Mia 2009

  • The system has worked slavishly to depersonalise them and conceal them under identical blankets and somehow the reader has to be able to tell them apart.

    The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett 2008

  • The system has worked slavishly to depersonalise them and conceal them under identical blankets and somehow the reader has to be able to tell them apart.

    The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett 2008

  • Here is a nasty one that tries to depersonalise Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier captured by a Palestinian terrorist organisation in 1994, by changing references to "Gilad" to "Shalit" or "he".

    More BBC bias Not a sheep 2007

  • You could further depersonalise it by talking about the most frequent perturbation being political interference with science in support of political aims.

    Another AGU Submission? « Climate Audit 2006

  • It sought to depersonalise every African, to the point of imposing names on individuals.

    ANC Today 2001

  • It sought to depersonalise every African, to the point of imposing names on individuals.

    ANC Today 2001

  • In them the whole effort of the speaker was really to restrain, to moderate, to depersonalise the voice of faith.

    Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

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