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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

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

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

“I never felt objectified or stupid,” Bowen said of that scene.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025

“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

“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

It added that even if some viewers inferred innuendo, it did not contain explicit content or objectifying imagery.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 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 Benedetto Croce




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