Examples of reification in a Sentence
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Unfortunately, people have a profound tendency to confuse representations with reality, a mistake called reification.
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Gautam Mukunda,
Mercury News,
19 May 2026
But also, and perhaps most importantly, for not believing in the reification of the work yourself, but that the honor bestowed on you is the responsibility and challenge of continual growth, supreme formal ambition, and new methods.
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Ocean Vuong
june 4,
Literary Hub,
4 June 2025
Orozco’s stickers of abstraction posed the question of whether abstraction—denigrated to its lowest possible level—could now serve as a last sign of resistance and redemption from the totalitarian conditions of reification.
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Benjamin H. D. Buchloh,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
Dangerous demagogues use reification to position opposition as less than human, thereby denying their standing to criticize or object.
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Jennifer Mercieca,
The Conversation,
19 June 2020
Does the reification of objectivity and detachment in the discipline serve to reinforce status hierarchies more than produce sound science?
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WSJ,
12 Sep. 2018
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Gautam Mukunda,
Mercury News,
19 May 2026
But also, and perhaps most importantly, for not believing in the reification of the work yourself, but that the honor bestowed on you is the responsibility and challenge of continual growth, supreme formal ambition, and new methods.
—
Ocean Vuong
june 4,
Literary Hub,
4 June 2025
Orozco’s stickers of abstraction posed the question of whether abstraction—denigrated to its lowest possible level—could now serve as a last sign of resistance and redemption from the totalitarian conditions of reification.
—
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
Dangerous demagogues use reification to position opposition as less than human, thereby denying their standing to criticize or object.
—
Jennifer Mercieca,
The Conversation,
19 June 2020
Does the reification of objectivity and detachment in the discipline serve to reinforce status hierarchies more than produce sound science?
—
WSJ,
12 Sep. 2018
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“Reification.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reification. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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