objectify
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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
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
Temu said that the pictures of the models with their faces cut off were not meant to objectify women and argued that other retail platforms showed similar photos.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2023
“My sweetheart. My Nicole, I’m sorry. I stole it from you to save you from letting them objectify you.”
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
“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
Perennially objectified actor Megan Fox details a few of her ‘tons’ of flaws in a new interview, including that she suffers from body dysmorphia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2023
“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
I hoped she didn’t think I objectified women.
From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan
The "objectifying" language is evidence of a need for better education around misogyny and violence against women, Villanueva said.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 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
In English we ‘it’ the living world; the objectifying, de-personalizing pronoun.
From Salon ● May 28, 2025
When people don’t look deeper, they are objectifying you and not getting to know you as a human being.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
The exercises in drawing, painting, and modeling co-operate to fine advantage for the objectifying of the visual images, of which the children get so large a store from literature.
From Literature in the Elementary School by Porter Lander MacClintock
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