reify
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The brain latches on or compares itself to others, starting a negative cycle of thinking that can reify itself.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 1, 2024
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 ● Jul. 31, 2021
We can use the mythology of the frontier, he writes, “to reify our nostalgia for a falsely idealized past,” or we can use it as a way of “imagining and speaking truth.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2017
And that, in turn, their worth was meaningless without a man or a corporation to reify it.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2016
Markets reify this contribution, turning life, energy, doubts, time, or whatever else-in particular language-into the commodity embodied in the product.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
The babydoll dress has a long and complex history, one that’s been associated with women’s sartorial freedom as much as it’s reified their cultural infantilization.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
We play by a code of conduct, that nebulous thing we have reified as “international law.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
Each count, Mr Teltumbde argues, "did not merely record caste, but reified and hardened it".
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025
We see this push for closure reified across American culture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2024
In the first place, language itself is reified and consumed.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
Based off the conventions and what exists in the world in terms of cyborgian narratives, I wanted to contribute something that isn’t reifying those projects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 29, 2022
But if the Warhol Foundation were to rescue Interview, that would bring in new advertisers from the art world while reifying its status as a unique art object in its own right.
From Slate ● May 22, 2018
Increased awareness of automated surveillance, in other words, is most effective at demystifying the systems doing the watching, not reifying their wisdom and authority.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2018
Simply reifying the railroad—the fulcrum of the novel itself—was enough to hint at the book’s wonderful strangeness, without revealing too much.
From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2016
The entire history of reifying the past was summarized in the university and projected as a model for the future.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
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