Examples of commodify in a Sentence

Do we really want to commodify our water supply? I feel like our culture is being commodified.

Recent Examples on the Web 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 See More

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