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objectify

[uhb-jek-tuh-fahy] / əbˈdʒɛk təˌfaɪ /


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I don’t want Rodrigo or anyone else to surrender the babydoll dress because a culture that’s never needed an excuse to objectify girls is concerned that it might objectify girls.

From Salon Jun. 12, 2026

Prof Tracey said: "Pain is subjective, it's a private experience that you can't really objectify, it's an oddity in its own self."

From BBC Dec. 28, 2024

According to the team's authors, attempts to standardise and objectify the development and evaluation of chemical reactions are still quite new and relatively uncommon.

From Science Daily Apr. 10, 2024

Including the topic in medical education could “counteract an ever-present risk of medical injustices” and “the tendency to objectify patients and research participants,” the commission’s co-chairs told Science.

From Science Magazine Nov. 15, 2023

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

“I never felt objectified or stupid,” Bowen said of that scene.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2025

“Gaza’s inhabitants are objectified, reduced to numbers or blurry concepts. The media rarely shows unfiltered images or personal stories, because doing so would be too confronting for most viewers,” he said.

From Slate May 30, 2025

“All I knew is that I never felt like it was enough. I questioned myself. I felt scrutinized, judged, objectified, often humiliated,” Fraser says.

From Seattle Times Dec. 6, 2022

Talking about being objectified is “really tricky,” he said, acknowledging that the experience is well known to many women in his industry, and can have higher stakes for them.

From New York Times Oct. 25, 2022

I hoped she didn’t think I objectified women.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan

It added that even if some viewers inferred innuendo, it did not contain explicit content or objectifying imagery.

From BBC Feb. 18, 2026

In English we ‘it’ the living world; the objectifying, de-personalizing pronoun.

From Salon May 28, 2025

But I also want to connect my brother’s experience with the broader trend of objectifying the American worker.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 5, 2024

“She’s not objectifying these men,” says the critic and curator Bob Nickas, a friend since the mid-80s.

From New York Times Mar. 29, 2023

It was not, however, given serious consideration, largely because of certain alleged paradoxes involved, and because of an elementalistic and objectifying attitude toward the whole subject of time.

From Hunter Patrol by Piper, H. Beam




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