reify

Example Sentences

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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

There seems to be a feedback mechanism now whereby the betting-market odds reify themselves.

From Slate • Jul. 12, 2016

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 Nadin, Mihai