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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

"They did do an assembly about how to treat women and not to objectify them."

From BBC Apr. 9, 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

That is, to objectify in words some insight derived from my living in the form of action, scene, and dialogue.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

“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

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

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

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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