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commercialize

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


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In January, the German government launched an initiative called AI Robotics Booster, pledging the equivalent of about $112 million to help scale and commercialize AI-based robotics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

“Venezuela is willing to negotiate, to commercialize, to agree on those new deals.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Kimberly-Clark describes its continuing efforts to commercialize the findings as a “moonshot,” and executives caution that there is a long research runway ahead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

AstraZeneca said it would acquire global rights to both develop and commercialize Zegfrovy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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

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

Cloudera, a Hortonworks competitor that also commercializes Hadoop, has amassed more than $1 billion in funding from investors is the furthest along in the experiment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2016

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 Col. Wm. C. Hunter

Thrive Eternal was to be the lead investor in a $4.2-billion capital raise, but there was an immediate global backlash over concerns that the world’s most popular sport was being overly commercialized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

The tech giant has organized a press launch event in New York to present the Pixel Tag, a rival to the AirTag, a tracking device commercialized by Apple since 2021.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

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

Previous attempts to commercialize this approach to chip-making have failed, the company said, adding that its offering is “the world’s first and only commercialized wafer-scale processor.”

From MarketWatch ● May 11, 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

The work began as a University SmallSat Technology Partnerships project before developing into EraDrive, which is now commercializing its Era-Core software and related hardware for wider use.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

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

MiniMax and Knowledge Atlas Technology have an advantage when it comes to commercializing their AI models, the brokerage adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 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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