objectify
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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
"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
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
That is, to objectify in words some insight derived from my living in the form of action, scene, and dialogue.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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“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
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
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
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The "objectifying" language is evidence of a need for better education around misogyny and violence against women, Villanueva said.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
What’s key to remember is that this new wave of hype surrounding East Asian media is less keen on whitewashing or objectifying than it may have been during previous eras.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 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
“She’s not objectifying these men,” says the critic and curator Bob Nickas, a friend since the mid-80s.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 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 Durant Drake
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