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commercialize

[kuh-mur-shuh-lahyz] / kəˈmɜr ʃəˌlaɪz /


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In the fall of 2022, she learned that a research lab called Anthropic was planning to commercialize its AI efforts.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Under the deal, AstraZeneca is acquiring worldwide rights to develop and commercialize Dizal’s Zegfrovy, which is approved in the U.S. and China for the treatment of a type of advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

The 33rd US president later wrote that it was wrong to "commercialize on the prestige and dignity of the office of the presidency".

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

It’s tempting to portray competition in the quantum space as a mad dash, akin to the high-stakes sprints to commercialize cloud compute and artificial intelligence.

From Barron's Jun. 29, 2026

Clark and Andreessen quickly understood the huge potential for Web-browsing software and decided to partner up to commercialize it.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

Janssen Biotech develops, manufactures and commercializes the drug in exchange for royalty payments.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 29, 2025

Words such as love, trust, freedom, responsibility and choice have been deformed by a market logic that commercializes and commodifies all relations of exchange.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2022

“That’s very impressive,” says Stephen Dobson, a medical entomologist at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, and the founder of MosquitoMate, a company that commercializes Wolbachia as a tool to control the Asian tiger mosquito.

From Nature Jul. 16, 2019

I can also see how some people are offended when someone commercializes and capitalizes on the cultural heritage of another group.

From Seattle Times Oct. 21, 2014

The man who discovers means to help his fellow man, does a good act, but is the man with the dollars in front of his eyes who commercializes the discovery and invention.

From Think A Book for To-day by Hunter, Col. Wm. C.

If the technology is commercialized, a single programmable optical chip could perform several tasks, including controlling signal speed and switching between different functions.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

“I didn’t love it as much as the other because of the commercialized feeling of it, and just the fact it never felt you were alone in Yosemite,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Over the past year or so, fringe ideas have been commercialized for the mainstream.

From Salon Jun. 15, 2026

Their theory is that Gilead should have commercialized TAF earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal May 5, 2026

When it comes to money, the question isn’t whether human tissues and tissue research will be commercialized.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

AstraZeneca and Ionis are jointly developing and commercializing Wainua in the U.S., while the former has exclusive rest of world commercialization and development rights.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

Today, CSL Behring is entirely responsible for commercializing the treatment.

From Barron's Jun. 17, 2026

The current valuation “makes an investment in Cerebras risky, as it is in very early stages of commercializing its product and it is unclear how much of the market they can capture,” Luria said.

From MarketWatch May 15, 2026

The project has been gradually commercializing its wind turbines since 4Q last year, with all 64 turbines expected to be in operation by 4Q 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 24, 2026

“Netscape helped to guarantee that these open protocols would not be proprietary by commercializing them for the public,” said Andreessen.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman



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