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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

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

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

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

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

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

If anything, this is a reminder that athletes are human, and, be they male or female, there is a distinct line between appreciating vs. objectifying and harassing.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2023

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

It is to the understanding Feuerbach attributes man's capacity for objectifying himself or of attributing to the outward world those qualities which really exist only within.

From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by George Willis Cooke




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