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objectify

[uhb-jek-tuh-fahy] / əbˈdʒɛk təˌfaɪ /


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The book challenges our default tendency to objectify the natural world—even as we grant legal personhood to corporations and intellectual property.

From Salon May 28, 2025

"It is unacceptable for any visitor, foreign or local, to exploit or objectify indigenous communities or their children for any purpose, including photography," the ministry said in a statement cited by Informanté newspaper.

From BBC May 21, 2025

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

“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

The library apologized, saying that it had “further objectified and compromised the dignity of the human being whose remains were used for its binding.”

From New York Times Mar. 27, 2024

The Kraken, who’d received some outside complaints on social media about players being objectified, stopped posting BookTok content from there but left videos up on their social-media platforms.

From Seattle Times Aug. 2, 2023

Meghan, who married into the British royal family in 2018, said that she quit the program because she felt she was “so much more than what was being objectified on the stage.”

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 20, 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

“So it’s not like she was objectifying you. She was actually looking to express something from within you and make sure that you’re so seated in your body that the collision can create something new.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 20, 2025

What’s key to remember is that this new wave of hype surrounding East Asian media is less keen on whitewashing or objectifying than it may have been during previous eras.

From Salon Sep. 17, 2025

Although traditional beauty pageants have come under criticism for objectifying women’s bodies, Muhitu thinks the Oct.

From Seattle Times Oct. 27, 2023

By objectifying them, he removes them from him and makes himself their superior.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto




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