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objectify

[uhb-jek-tuh-fahy] / əbˈdʒɛk təˌfaɪ /


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"It is unacceptable for any visitor, foreign or local, to exploit or objectify indigenous communities or their children for any purpose, including photography," the ministry said in a statement cited by Informanté newspaper.

From BBC ● May 21, 2025

"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

Meghan, who married into the British royal family in 2018, said that she quit the program because she felt she was “so much more than what was being objectified on the stage.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2022

I hoped she didn’t think I objectified women.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan

The "objectifying" language is evidence of a need for better education around misogyny and violence against women, Villanueva said.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026

Moss described her experience with the iconic 1992 Calvin Klein underwear ad with actor Mark Wahlberg as objectifying.

From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2024

But I also want to connect my brother’s experience with the broader trend of objectifying the American worker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2024

“She’s not objectifying these men,” says the critic and curator Bob Nickas, a friend since the mid-80s.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

Thus man should attain to art, by objectifying, not his sensations, as happens with ordinary intuition, but intuition itself.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce




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