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commercialize

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


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She notes China benefits from lower industrial power prices and rapid infrastructure development, and has a proven ability to commercialize technology at scale.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 14, 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

The funding comes through the agency’s National Quantum Virtual Laboratory program, which unites researchers, industry, and government to develop and commercialize quantum technology.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

Howard declined, citing a most unlikely reason: “We do not care to commercialize Seabiscuit.”

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

Seagen, which develops and commercializes cancer drugs, saw its shares rise after news of the possible bid.

From Seattle Times Jul. 7, 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

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

“But that’s not what’s being commercialized by the rest of the industry.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

The former staffers have sent “don’t you dare” letters to the commission, and one of them argued that the view of the downtown skyline would be cluttered and commercialized.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 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

The clock is also ticking for Replimune, which lacks a commercialized product.

From Barron's May 29, 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

In 2025, researchers published around 25,000 papers about 3-D printing of batteries and their components, yet only a handful of startups have even proposed commercializing the technology.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 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

Like its pure-play peers, Pasqal is in the early stages of commercializing its systems and has yet to generate a profit.

From Barron's Apr. 8, 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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