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Recent Examples of commercialize
Katharine did give us the foundational science, even if her version of the glass was too soft to commercialize.
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Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026
The company said the split — with the new firm dedicated to discovery and BioNTech gearing up to commercialize its medicines — could add more value for shareholders.
—Ed Silverman, STAT, 10 Mar. 2026
But Uber got a long way into its development by kind of taking something that a company was doing sort of for itself, sort of for its customers, not thinking that hard about how to commercialize it and built a giant business on top of that.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 3 Mar. 2026
Lawyers for the family argued in that case that the company continued to commercialize the results long after the origins of the HeLa cell line became well known and unjustly enriched itself off Lacks’ cells.
—CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026
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Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026
The company said the split — with the new firm dedicated to discovery and BioNTech gearing up to commercialize its medicines — could add more value for shareholders.
—Ed Silverman, STAT, 10 Mar. 2026
But Uber got a long way into its development by kind of taking something that a company was doing sort of for itself, sort of for its customers, not thinking that hard about how to commercialize it and built a giant business on top of that.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 3 Mar. 2026
Lawyers for the family argued in that case that the company continued to commercialize the results long after the origins of the HeLa cell line became well known and unjustly enriched itself off Lacks’ cells.
—CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for commercialize
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And graffiti is fascinating, partially because it’s always been way harder to commodify than rap music.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
6 Feb. 2026
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Trying to commodify it in fragments misses the point.—
Felicia Jackson,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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When, in the early nineteen-hundreds, Gibson developed the F-style flat-back, inspired by the Stradivarius violin, the idea was to produce a louder instrument that could be used for classical as well as folk music, while being assembly-line-friendly.—
Tim Parks,
New Yorker,
11 Apr. 2026
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Orbán has used his party's current supermajority in Hungarian parliament to undermine the independence of the judiciary, crack down on independent media, demonize migrants and discriminate against LGBTQ people, Human Rights Watch has said.—
Emmet Lyons,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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The show mostly avoids the politics that swirl around the design business, especially these days when critics are obsessed with the environmental evils of fast fashion and the shortcomings of an industry known to exploit labor around the globe.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
Denver Post,
6 Apr. 2026
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Nevertheless, rumors about Altman’s personal life have been exploited and distorted by competitors.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Playing on the sympathy of the owner of the local sawmill, Winston leverages his family’s plight to talk his way into a job.—
Francine Prose,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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In contrast to conventional batteries that primarily rely on chemical reactions to store and discharge energy, quantum batteries leverage unique quantum-mechanical properties, such as superposition and entanglement.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
4 Apr. 2026
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Heru Amin Shabazz, 33, was charged with pimping and pandering, court records show.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Adams County Sheriff's Office Allen was on probation for a felony drug possession case when the pimping investigation was launched.—
Logan Smith,
CBS News,
21 Mar. 2026
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“Commercialize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commercialize. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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