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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

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

Takeda will be granted exclusive worldwide rights to develop, manufacture and commercialize the new drugs.

From The Wall Street Journal 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

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

The court said that José Luis Calama has decided to lead a judicial commission that will travel to Israel to “take testimony from the CEO of the company that commercializes the Pegasus program.”

From Seattle Times Jun. 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

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

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

Once ubiquitous across mom-and-pop shops, handmade signage is now nearly nonexistent in an increasingly commercialized city, but thanks to the pair it continues to live on in Jackson Heights, Queens.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 22, 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

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

Disclosures: Roxhed is a founder and shareholder of Capitainer AB, a company commercializing the blood collection devices used in this study.

From Science Daily Mar. 15, 2026

Ajinomoto, the Japanese food company best known for commercializing monosodium glutamate, used its chemistry knowledge to make a specialized film used in the underside layer of a chip alongside T-glass.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 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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