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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

“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

JT: Why is it important to both invite the viewer to feel like they’re being objectified — or like they’re the subject — and also exclude, or reinforce that exclusion somehow?

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 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

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

In English we ‘it’ the living world; the objectifying, de-personalizing pronoun.

From Salon May 28, 2025

But I also want to connect my brother’s experience with the broader trend of objectifying the American worker.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 5, 2024

When people don’t look deeper, they are objectifying you and not getting to know you as a human being.

From Seattle Times Jul. 12, 2023

Animism, which looms so large in primitive religion, consists in thus objectifying into things the emotions they arouse in us.

From Problems of Conduct by Drake, Durant




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