objectify
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That is the through-line: a city, a state and a country that objectify Native homelands, treating them as expendable and raw material.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 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
No doubt she feels judged and objectified by what must have felt like a confrontation.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
“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
It apologised and said it had "further objectified and compromised the dignity of the human being whose remains were used for its binding".
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2024
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
Song, on the other hand, finds that the term “identity” carries an objectifying connotation, as it fails to fully describe a person’s layered selfhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
“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
Thus man should attain to art, by objectifying, not his sensations, as happens with ordinary intuition, but intuition itself.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
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