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objectify

[uhb-jek-tuh-fahy] / əbˈdʒɛk təˌfaɪ /


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"Men like this need their passes for these events to revoked. Women are not your objects to objectify and command to move as you see fit."

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 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

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

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

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

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

According to Schopenhauer the world is idea, and this so called material environment is thought objectifying itself.

From The Head Voice and Other Problems Practical Talks on Singing by D. A. (David Alva) Clippinger


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