How to Use commercialize in a Sentence

commercialize

verb
  • The company hopes to commercialize the drug next year.
  • 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
  • It was commercialized in March with the La Roche-Posay brand.
    Jenny B. Fine, WWD, 18 Oct. 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
  • If commercialized, these routes would become the longest in the world at about 19 hours.
    Jay L. Zagorsky, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • Most of the businesses along Route 66 these days are pretty commercialized, canned, and safe.
    Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2018
  • The researchers are working with a biotech firm to commercialize the cancer-fighting nanobots.
    NBC News, 30 Mar. 2018
  • To commercialize an offering, Google would first need to get its hands on more records, which tend to vary widely across health providers.
    Mark Bergen, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2018
  • But the short version is that from the 1920s onward, beef became commercialized and more widespread.
    Rachel Tepper Paley, Smithsonian, 13 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • Last year, the company raised $5.8 million to commercialize the patch.
    Mike Feibus, USA TODAY, 8 July 2018
  • That’s not to say hip-hop hasn’t been, but the voice remains undeniably Black even as the genre has been hyper-commercialized.
    Stereo Williams, Billboard, 24 May 2018
  • 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
  • Many nations attempt to sell or commercialize data to recoup some of the costs.
    OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • His confidence, and will to commercialize, have about them the whiff of charlatanism.
    Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
  • The team is looking for funding and strategic partners to help them commercialize the robot.
    Erin Biba, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2018
  • It has since been commercialized by spinoff company molluSCAN.
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Sign up Modern documentaries have also become much more commercialized, experts say.
    Justin Klawans, theweek, 7 Nov. 2024

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