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

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience.

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

“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

“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

Meghan, who married into the British royal family in 2018, said that she quit the program because she felt she was “so much more than what was being objectified on the stage.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 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

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

“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

It is to the understanding Feuerbach attributes man's capacity for objectifying himself or of attributing to the outward world those qualities which really exist only within.

From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by George Willis Cooke