reify
Example Sentences
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We play by a code of conduct, that nebulous thing we have reified as “international law.”
While it gave Indians something they’d lacked for multiple centuries of their own history—concrete data about themselves—it also “reified,” or made concrete, the religious category of “Hindu,” the majority of India’s population.
Each count, Mr Teltumbde argues, "did not merely record caste, but reified and hardened it".
From BBC
We see this push for closure reified across American culture.
From Los Angeles Times
The brain latches on or compares itself to others, starting a negative cycle of thinking that can reify itself.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
