reify

Example Sentences

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They ask critical questions about colleges as sites that perpetuate classism, places that not only reify hierarchies of value but rely on it as part of their mythology.

From Salon

Everyone at Taku already loved Dodger, and it was bountifully clear that Nakajima did too — the mental health benefits of the pandemic pet already reifying.

From Seattle Times

“The things we find pleasant are racialized, they are determined by our background, and they reify our tendencies towards group thinking,” says Soleil Ho, the San Francisco Chronicle’s food critic.

From Washington Post

Now, many entertainment companies release entire series at once, thus reifying a new term, "binge-watching," to describe the behavior of watching multiple episodes, back-to-back, of an entire series.

From Salon

While this could be distracting, or even indulgent, in lesser hands, Watson’s experiments serve to both deepen our immersion and reify the buried pain at the novel’s center.

From New York Times