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objectify

[uhb-jek-tuh-fahy] / əbˈdʒɛk təˌfaɪ /


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"It is unacceptable for any visitor, foreign or local, to exploit or objectify indigenous communities or their children for any purpose, including photography," the ministry said in a statement cited by Informanté newspaper.

From BBC May 21, 2025

"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

“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

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

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

Although traditional beauty pageants have come under criticism for objectifying women’s bodies, Muhitu thinks the Oct.

From Seattle Times Oct. 27, 2023

It was not, however, given serious consideration, largely because of certain alleged paradoxes involved, and because of an elementalistic and objectifying attitude toward the whole subject of time.

From Hunter Patrol by H. Beam Piper




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