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objectify

[uhb-jek-tuh-fahy] / əbˈdʒɛk təˌfaɪ /


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Prof Tracey said: "Pain is subjective, it's a private experience that you can't really objectify, it's an oddity in its own self."

From BBC Dec. 28, 2024

"Men like this need their passes for these events to revoked. Women are not your objects to objectify and command to move as you see fit."

From Salon Apr. 16, 2024

According to the team's authors, attempts to standardise and objectify the development and evaluation of chemical reactions are still quite new and relatively uncommon.

From Science Daily Apr. 10, 2024

Including the topic in medical education could “counteract an ever-present risk of medical injustices” and “the tendency to objectify patients and research participants,” the commission’s co-chairs told Science.

From Science Magazine Nov. 15, 2023

That is, to objectify in words some insight derived from my living in the form of action, scene, and dialogue.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

“Gaza’s inhabitants are objectified, reduced to numbers or blurry concepts. The media rarely shows unfiltered images or personal stories, because doing so would be too confronting for most viewers,” he said.

From Slate May 30, 2025

The library apologized, saying that it had “further objectified and compromised the dignity of the human being whose remains were used for its binding.”

From New York Times Mar. 27, 2024

The Kraken, who’d received some outside complaints on social media about players being objectified, stopped posting BookTok content from there but left videos up on their social-media platforms.

From Seattle Times Aug. 2, 2023

Perennially objectified actor Megan Fox details a few of her ‘tons’ of flaws in a new interview, including that she suffers from body dysmorphia.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2023

I hoped she didn’t think I objectified women.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan

It added that even if some viewers inferred innuendo, it did not contain explicit content or objectifying imagery.

From BBC Feb. 18, 2026

“So it’s not like she was objectifying you. She was actually looking to express something from within you and make sure that you’re so seated in your body that the collision can create something new.”

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 20, 2025

What’s key to remember is that this new wave of hype surrounding East Asian media is less keen on whitewashing or objectifying than it may have been during previous eras.

From Salon Sep. 17, 2025

When people don’t look deeper, they are objectifying you and not getting to know you as a human being.

From Seattle Times Jul. 12, 2023

And this process of emotional and objectifying perception has clearly no other end than just perception itself.

From The Principles of Aesthetics by Dewitt H. Parker




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