How to Use commercialize in a Sentence

commercialize

verb
  • The company hopes to commercialize the drug next year.
  • If commercialized, these routes would become the longest in the world at about 19 hours.
    Jay L. Zagorsky, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2019
  • It was commercialized in March with the La Roche-Posay brand.
    Jenny B. Fine, WWD, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The beauty industry has found a way to commercialize every square inch of your skin, from whole-body deodorant to intimate vulva-care.
    Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Michael Jordan’s rise as a global marketing star helped commercialize sneaker culture.
    Jarrel Harris, SI.com, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Roberson explains that his own inventions take, on average, seven to 10 years to be commercialized.
    Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Many other companies are already commercializing the output of algae fibers.
    Ben Lamm, Quartz, 1 Oct. 2019
  • The project could take decades to fully commercialize but has the potential to revolutionize electricity.
    Andrew Blum, Time, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Octinion has already commercialized the robot, which is being used in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
    Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Copyright enforcement is essential to ensure that these artists, writers, musicians and other creators are able to commercialize their creative work in order to earn a livelihood.
    Ed Christman, Billboard, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Collins hopes to commercialize the mask to sell for around $5.
    Simon Makin, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2021
  • It was first commercialized in the 1840s, and soon gained renown among artists.
    Katherine Kornei, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The lab hopes to commercialize and broadcast the new gel in the coming years.
    Tom Li, The Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2024
  • If the product had been approved, Lykos would have the sole rights to commercialize it for five years.
    Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • That doesn’t give you rights to commercialize Top Shot.
    Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Xerox, which had the idea in the first place, never commercialized it.
    Adam Lashinsky, Washington Post, 24 June 2024
  • That’s when the thought of equipping artists to commercialize their music first crossed his mind.
    Priti Salian, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2021
  • Efforts to commercialize the cocktail in the U.S. were dizzying in their speed.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2022
  • The Endgame: Does the company plan to commercialize the product on its own or seek a partner?
    Harris Kaplan, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Herbert says StarLab Oasis will be one of the first to commercialize the process.
    Nell Lewis, CNN, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The model was commercialized in 2019 and is now part of Samsung’s Galaxy phone.
    IEEE Spectrum, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Well, over several years, but being commercialized or brought to light over the past year.
    Michael Calore, WIRED, 20 July 2023
  • Led by Yu, the trio brainstormed at their dining table on ways to commercialize AI in a mass market.
    Ralph Jennings, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The team are now working to commercialize the ancient practices for modern use.
    Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Similar private and state-led gas line projects to commercialize North Slope gas have failed for decades.
    Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2022
  • In any case, Topps has paid for the right to access these players’ likenesses in an effort to commercialize them.
    Jeff Gapusan, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • His confidence, and will to commercialize, have about them the whiff of charlatanism.
    Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
  • Ume is now back and on a mission — to commercialize video deepfakes for the planned metaverse and make them as central to digital life as tweets and memes.
    Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022
  • When everything around us is commercialized, style is one of the few things that feels…personal.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Haran’s group is now in the process of trying to commercialize their motor through a spinout called Hinetics.
    IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2023

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