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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
infantilize .
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Examples
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I am 29, but due to my behavior, I get treated like a teenager (in short, infantilized).
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He says the NGO presence has permanently " infantilized " the country, creating a vicious cycle: The government lacks the money — and historically, the inclination — to provide social services.
Aid Spawns Backlash in Haiti Jos 2010
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Wall Street Journal that the NGO community has "infantilized" the country and usurped responsibilities better left to the Haitian government.
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Wall Street Journal that the NGO community has "infantilized" the country and usurped responsibilities better left to the Haitian government.
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Wall Street Journal that the NGO community has "infantilized" the country and usurped responsibilities better left to the Haitian government.
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And so it happened that the American branch of the comics medium, going through a difficult but promising adolescence, was marched straight back to its childhood room, sedated and infantilized.
Douglas Wolk: How Comics Became Literature for Adults Douglas Wolk 2011
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The two-party system has created a naive duality that has effectively infantilized political discourse in this country.
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You need look no further than "ET - The Extra-Terrestrial" to see an example of how the frightening prospect of the alien from outer space -- depicted as monstrous in a series of movies from the 1950s through the 1980s -- had now been dealt with far more satisfyingly, by being infantilized.
Harry Shearer: Don't Demonize Political Opponents, Infantilize Them Harry Shearer 2011
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And even if she is right that many readers "don't care" about the matters of technique and style she says critics often "overvalue," does this mean critics should abandon more purely literary standards for the vague and untroubled standards she attributes to her infantilized common readers?
Style in Fiction 2009
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And so it happened that the American branch of the comics medium, going through a difficult but promising adolescence, was marched straight back to its childhood room, sedated and infantilized.
Douglas Wolk: How Comics Became Literature for Adults Douglas Wolk 2011
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