reify
Example Sentences
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The brain latches on or compares itself to others, starting a negative cycle of thinking that can reify itself.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 1, 2024
They ask critical questions about colleges as sites that perpetuate classism, places that not only reify hierarchies of value but rely on it as part of their mythology.
From Salon • Jul. 31, 2021
And that, in turn, their worth was meaningless without a man or a corporation to reify it.
From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2016
But it still reflects an impulse to reify or personify what is really a technological process, not an individual agent.
From Slate • Feb. 5, 2015
Markets reify this contribution, turning life, energy, doubts, time, or whatever else-in particular language-into the commodity embodied in the product.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
Vocabulary lists containing reify
Power Suffix: -fy
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ify
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