How to Use reify in a Sentence

reify

verb

• This is just reified in the so-called app-based, digital ...
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 29 Aug. 2018
• But to reify the candidates who are speaking in a very adamant way and say that will sink the Democrats seems, to me, premature.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 18 July 2019
• But Cohen certainly goes across the street and around the corner to reify certain stereotypes about hedge fund managers.
  — Jennifer Senior, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2017
• Many of the acts who took the stage were immortalized as icons of the era, either reified for their sets or kicking off their ascent to stardom.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 9 Aug. 2019
• The challenge, Ninh acknowledges, is to talk about success in terms that don’t merely reify the myth of the model minority.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2022
• Once cohorts are reified by name, the labels become dog-whistles.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Oct. 2019
• Guns are central to this worldview, and the Buffalo video shows in real time their power to reify belief into deed.
  — New York Times, 15 June 2022
• Like a fine wine, Walla Walla sweets reify their terroir; their sweetness comes from a low amount of sulfur in the soil of the region (which also happens to produce fine wine).
  — Bethany Jean Clement, The Seattle Times, 7 June 2017
• What began as a passion project to reify a history lesson has since transformed into a cautionary tale.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 June 2022
• This dynamic was reified in the band’s own music, both in their voices — Gordon’s breathy and mysterious, Moore’s flat and sneering — and in their song material.
  — Vulture, 20 Oct. 2023
• And one of the main reasons why has been a series of professional norms that journalists justify as part of objectivity but that reify the elite prism and its many distortions.
  — Max Moran, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
• He was bewildered by the rise of a style of identity politics that reified the fictions of race and, through its fixation on diversity in élite spaces, abandoned the working class.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2019
• And Disney has, in other ways, reified the genre by dusting off its animated classics and finding box-office glory with live-action remakes.
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2019
• Invoking perhaps the most reified of texts in a freewheeling sense allows Dacus into the looseness that defines all three of their brushes with more determined dogmas.
  — Vulture, 4 Apr. 2023
• There’s a temptation in video game movie adaptations to reify every object, imbue every symbol with weight, and rely on the mere act of recognition to carry the viewer’s attention.
  — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023
• Yet inexplicably, Dolan picked up the two-year option on Jackson’s contract in the same week, reifying the only possible justification for keeping Phil on board.
  — Nathaniel Friedman, GQ, 28 June 2017
• The approach to casting is now more diverse, and the novel’s colonialist perspective, which the original Broadway production reified in its careless references to India, has been cleaned up.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• But whether this is best addressed by further reifying racial categories and concepts of citizenship is another matter.
  — Garry Rodan, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
• At its best, a trade between artists is a mutual affirmation of artistic identity, a way of reifying the nonmaterial, often subconscious transmission of ideas.
  — New York Times, 8 Oct. 2019
• Out of a desire to help oppressed groups, that is, grew an ideology that ultimately reifies identity and rejects the possibility of cross-group solidarity.
  — Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2023
• And patterns that reified that idea began to emerge in data generated by proton collisions in the linear accelerators in California.
  — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 24 May 2013
• With so many stories of mean-spirited and violent segregationists abusing black women and men, rarely did Lewis or Odum or progressives nationwide have to confront how their liberal reforms reified racial inequities.
  — Longreads, 25 May 2018
• Going forward, the festival will reify that particular identity.
  — Ben Croll, Variety, 5 Apr. 2023
• Especially during Reconstruction, the trope served to continue the dehumanization of Black women following slavery and to reify white womanhood, Lindsey said.
  — NBC News, 14 Oct. 2020
• Within a matter of hours, a possible act of anti-auction protest by an inveterate art prankster had been transmogrified by the churning gears of the market into an auction-reifying, value-amplifying piece of monetizable performance art.
  — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2018
• Going forward, how can pharmaceutical companies avoid reifying societal biases and, as a result, undermining the public health effectiveness of their products?
  — Ashley Andreou, STAT, 18 June 2018
• In addition to a stable of political allies who would likely agree with him, the president also enjoys a mostly pliant Republican establishment that’s unwilling to rein him in and a powerful media apparatus that reifies his every decision.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2018
• This work connected her to nationwide efforts that rooted reform in social science research and simultaneously reified an American racial hierarchy.
  — Longreads, 25 May 2018
• In each of these representative cases, statistics reified not just social affiliation but identity itself.
  — Shannon Pufahl, The New York Review of Books, 21 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024