How to Use reify in a Sentence
reify
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This is just reified in the so-called app-based, digital ...
—Eric Johnson, Recode, 29 Aug. 2018
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But to reify the candidates who are speaking in a very adamant way and say that will sink the Democrats seems, to me, premature.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 18 July 2019
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But Cohen certainly goes across the street and around the corner to reify certain stereotypes about hedge fund managers.
—Jennifer Senior, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2017
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Many of the acts who took the stage were immortalized as icons of the era, either reified for their sets or kicking off their ascent to stardom.
—Raisa Bruner, Time, 9 Aug. 2019
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The challenge, Ninh acknowledges, is to talk about success in terms that don’t merely reify the myth of the model minority.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2022
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Once cohorts are reified by name, the labels become dog-whistles.
—BostonGlobe.com, 12 Oct. 2019
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Guns are central to this worldview, and the Buffalo video shows in real time their power to reify belief into deed.
—New York Times, 15 June 2022
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Like a fine wine, Walla Walla sweets reify their terroir; their sweetness comes from a low amount of sulfur in the soil of the region (which also happens to produce fine wine).
—Bethany Jean Clement, The Seattle Times, 7 June 2017
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What began as a passion project to reify a history lesson has since transformed into a cautionary tale.
—Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 June 2022
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This dynamic was reified in the band’s own music, both in their voices — Gordon’s breathy and mysterious, Moore’s flat and sneering — and in their song material.
—Vulture, 20 Oct. 2023
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And one of the main reasons why has been a series of professional norms that journalists justify as part of objectivity but that reify the elite prism and its many distortions.
—Max Moran, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
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He was bewildered by the rise of a style of identity politics that reified the fictions of race and, through its fixation on diversity in élite spaces, abandoned the working class.
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2019
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And Disney has, in other ways, reified the genre by dusting off its animated classics and finding box-office glory with live-action remakes.
—Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2019
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Invoking perhaps the most reified of texts in a freewheeling sense allows Dacus into the looseness that defines all three of their brushes with more determined dogmas.
—Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
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Yet inexplicably, Dolan picked up the two-year option on Jackson’s contract in the same week, reifying the only possible justification for keeping Phil on board.
—Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 28 June 2017
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The approach to casting is now more diverse, and the novel’s colonialist perspective, which the original Broadway production reified in its careless references to India, has been cleaned up.
—Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
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But whether this is best addressed by further reifying racial categories and concepts of citizenship is another matter.
—Garry Rodan, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
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At its best, a trade between artists is a mutual affirmation of artistic identity, a way of reifying the nonmaterial, often subconscious transmission of ideas.
—New York Times, 8 Oct. 2019
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And patterns that reified that idea began to emerge in data generated by proton collisions in the linear accelerators in California.
—Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 24 May 2013
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With so many stories of mean-spirited and violent segregationists abusing black women and men, rarely did Lewis or Odum or progressives nationwide have to confront how their liberal reforms reified racial inequities.
—Longreads, 25 May 2018
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Going forward, the festival will reify that particular identity.
—Ben Croll, Variety, 5 Apr. 2023
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Especially during Reconstruction, the trope served to continue the dehumanization of Black women following slavery and to reify white womanhood, Lindsey said.
—NBC News, 14 Oct. 2020
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Within a matter of hours, a possible act of anti-auction protest by an inveterate art prankster had been transmogrified by the churning gears of the market into an auction-reifying, value-amplifying piece of monetizable performance art.
—Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2018
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Going forward, how can pharmaceutical companies avoid reifying societal biases and, as a result, undermining the public health effectiveness of their products?
—Ashley Andreou, STAT, 18 June 2018
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In addition to a stable of political allies who would likely agree with him, the president also enjoys a mostly pliant Republican establishment that’s unwilling to rein him in and a powerful media apparatus that reifies his every decision.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2018
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This work connected her to nationwide efforts that rooted reform in social science research and simultaneously reified an American racial hierarchy.
—Longreads, 25 May 2018
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In each of these representative cases, statistics reified not just social affiliation but identity itself.
—Shannon Pufahl, The New York Review of Books, 21 Apr. 2020
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