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commercialize

[kuh-mur-shuh-lahyz] / kəˈmɜr ʃəˌlaɪz /


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In January, the German government launched an initiative called AI Robotics Booster, pledging the equivalent of about $112 million to help scale and commercialize AI-based robotics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Kimberly-Clark describes its continuing efforts to commercialize the findings as a “moonshot,” and executives caution that there is a long research runway ahead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

In the fall of 2022, she learned that a research lab called Anthropic was planning to commercialize its AI efforts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

AstraZeneca said it would acquire global rights to both develop and commercialize Zegfrovy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Clark and Andreessen quickly understood the huge potential for Web-browsing software and decided to partner up to commercialize it.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

Janssen Biotech develops, manufactures and commercializes the drug in exchange for royalty payments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2025

Words such as love, trust, freedom, responsibility and choice have been deformed by a market logic that commercializes and commodifies all relations of exchange.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2022

Seagen, which develops and commercializes cancer drugs, saw its shares rise after news of the possible bid.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2022

“That’s very impressive,” says Stephen Dobson, a medical entomologist at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, and the founder of MosquitoMate, a company that commercializes Wolbachia as a tool to control the Asian tiger mosquito.

From Nature ● Jul. 16, 2019

The man who discovers means to help his fellow man, does a good act, but is the man with the dollars in front of his eyes who commercializes the discovery and invention.

From Think A Book for To-day by Col. Wm. C. Hunter

If the technology is commercialized, a single programmable optical chip could perform several tasks, including controlling signal speed and switching between different functions.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026

“I didn’t love it as much as the other because of the commercialized feeling of it, and just the fact it never felt you were alone in Yosemite,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

The clock is also ticking for Replimune, which lacks a commercialized product.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

To help mariners spot them, a company called WhaleSpotter commercialized the whale-breath detection technology, which also has been used on containerships.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

When it comes to money, the question isn’t whether human tissues and tissue research will be commercialized.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

The massive data center build-out may prove to be the critical platform for commercializing clean, reliable, low-carbon electricity-generation technology that the world will need to tackle climate change.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

The work began as a University SmallSat Technology Partnerships project before developing into EraDrive, which is now commercializing its Era-Core software and related hardware for wider use.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

China is reducing its own dependence on foreign-controlled architectures while positioning itself to lead in commercializing the open alternative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

Today, CSL Behring is entirely responsible for commercializing the treatment.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

“Netscape helped to guarantee that these open protocols would not be proprietary by commercializing them for the public,” said Andreessen.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman



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