Thesaurus results for COMMODIFY

commodify

verb

as in to exploit

disapproving to treat (something that cannot be owned or that everyone has a right to) like a product that can be bought and sold Do we really want to commodify our water supply? I feel like our culture is being commodified.

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Recent Examples of commodify And the logic of marketing dictates that dating apps commodify people into legible archetypes for an easy sale. —

Josh Greenblatt, WIRED, 17 July 2024 Will the drive to commodify ancient practices defile them? —

Oshan Jarow, Vox, 7 June 2024 But the pursuit of online fame, particularly through Instagram, has supercharged the often toxic phenomenon, The Times found, encouraging parents to commodify their children’s images. —

Michael H. Keller, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024 The play isn’t subtle in presenting its allegory of national racial dysfunction—the white family’s self-absorption in the face of Black suffering, and their swift move to commodify it—but Jacobs-Jenkins’s dramatic machinery is often immensely effective. —

Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023 See all Example Sentences for commodify

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In the Syrian Arab Republic, there was a risk of the group exploiting security vacuums after the fall of the Syrian government of Bashar Al-Assad on December 8.

— Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2025
But in other cases, there’s little justification for tracking your whereabouts, which then can be exploited by apps, ad services or even hackers.

— Kelvin Chan, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2025