How to Use commodify in a Sentence
commodify
verb- I feel like our culture is being commodified.
- Do we really want to commodify our water supply?
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To allow parents to choose either life or death for their child is to commodify them.
—Isaac Schorr, National Review, 25 Nov. 2020
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To commodify such a small pleasure would equate to no less than a middle finger to the millions of people who fly everyday.
—Cnt Editors, CNT, 5 July 2017
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The real-estate business — one tiny golden sliver of it, anyway — keeps finding fresh ways to commodify chunks of the city.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 Oct. 2021
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The episode is a spot-on parody of both the torture of the creative process and the absurd ways that obsession with an artist’s personal narrative helps to commodify their work.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2021
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Services like Cameo also suggest, and queasily so, that there is no limit to what the gig economy can commodify.
—Laurence Scott, Wired, 4 Feb. 2021
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The movie business can’t be allowed to commodify diversity for its own ends.
—Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 22 June 2018
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Trixie’s ability to commodify and plan is evident in her own brand.
—Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 24 June 2022
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The request hinges on a desire to commodify our social-media reach, to seem influential, and, perhaps, to align with a company that shares our values.
—Laura Callaghan, Marie Claire, 11 Mar. 2021
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The passing of the Sept. 13 deadline also means the end of an era in which the U.S. defied a shift in global privacy norms, and allowed American companies to commodify consumer data.
—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2019
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In effect, then, men define, imprison, commodify and erase women.
—Joan Frank, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Dec. 2017
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In fact, the embrace of Black gymnasts often seems conditioned on the ability to commodify and capitalize on their labor and their Blackness.
—Amira Rose Davis, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2022
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Yet some on the left say economic arguments commodify immigrants or denigrate the native work force.
—Jason Deparle, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2020
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But race and racial tension — especially in the context of continued violence against people of color in the United States, an issue on which the public is deeply divided — are not quite as easy to simply commodify and brand.
—Sarah Banet-Weiser, Vox, 7 Sep. 2018
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There are going to be examples, time and time again, of corporations or private interests trying to commodify, trying to exploit.
—Justin Curto, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2021
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Tech companies and governments already use these data to monitor and commodify our likes and dislikes; soon psychiatrists might be able to use them to measure and evaluate our mental state.
—Daniel Barron, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2021
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While commodifying a basic human need seemed horrifying at first, the Dreamery is an experience that even one of the most skeptical of editors enjoyed.
—Chavie Lieber, Vox, 27 Dec. 2018
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Three women who have filed lawsuits in different states charge that surrogacy contracts are exploitative to birth mothers, create a class of women as breeders and commodify children.
—Paige Winfield Cunningham, Washington Post, 17 May 2018
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The upcoming documentary will look at the origin and impact of music merchandise through the stories of pivotal musicians, designers, fans, and entrepreneurs who helped commodify artists.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 27 May 2022
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Selfies can skew gendered power dynamics by allowing women to commodify what they've been taught is their only value—their appearance.
—Alicia Swiz, Chicago Reader, 10 Jan. 2018
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The satire takes aim not only at New Yorkers’ special relationship to the housing market but also at influencer culture: the now familiar mode of using social media to commodify the intimate details of one’s life for clout or ad dollars.
—Natalie Meade, The New Yorker, 14 July 2021
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Given that scientists from every corner of the globe agree that the world has an ever-shortening window to curb emissions, allowing the extractive industries an easier path to commodify the Earth is extremely alarming.
—Nick Martin, The New Republic, 10 Jan. 2020
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Suddenly, every slur, insult, and caricature seems like a golden opportunity to commodify and profit from the most repellent sound bites.
—Sonia K. Katyal, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2018
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Triumphant robotic capitalism employs new technologies to automate and commodify work so that the political defeat of the bottom 50 percent can be extended to the bottom 90 percent.
—Rana Dasgupta, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
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Unfettered by the weight of the symbolism embedded in Juneteenth, creative imaginations can concoct a million ways to commodify and monetize its recent arrival on the federal calendar.
—Aronte Bennett, Forbes, 3 June 2022
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Of course, simple positions are easier to commodify, too, like Riaz’s sponsorship of Sufi organizations that brand Islam as friendly and loving.
—Amir-Hussein Radjy, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2021
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For the novel today, the more valid aesthetic and ethical questions concern the possibility of speaking about trauma without commodifying or further devaluing it.
—Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
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Articulating trauma can commodify it, the art scene of Candyman demonstrates, by both alienating the artists themselves and making the audience complicit in perpetuating the same images of violence.
—Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 27 Aug. 2021
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That competition is intensified for female actresses, who not only commodify their personas but also their bodies.
—Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 4 June 2022
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