objectify

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

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

“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

A silver 9-inch television, chrome-plated and as pristine as a Jeff Koons bunny, is revealed as its own objectified gesture of triumphal power, discreetly encased in a Plexiglas box and elevated atop a pedestal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 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

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

Moss described her experience with the iconic 1992 Calvin Klein underwear ad with actor Mark Wahlberg as objectifying.

From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2024

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

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 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

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 Croce, Benedetto