commercialized

past tense of commercialize

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for commercialized
Verb
  • The Hyundai Motor Company used one of the world’s largest sporting stages to showcase its robotics ambitions.
    Clemente Lisi, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
  • For instance, in Berkeley, neighbors used CEQA — citing potential noise impact from partying students — to delay, for years, UC Berkeley’s construction of student dorms on People’s Park.
    Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
Verb
  • Social media has exploited this tendency, driving an algorithmic wedge into our society that the founders could hardly have imagined.
    Michael Fitts, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • The book is often about the ways in which wellness and self-care have become commodified and exploited — having to level up to buy things in order to feel good.
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 25 June 2026
Verb
  • It should be leveraged, not relied upon strictly to deliver all results.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • India’s government, which has long leveraged a hard line on Pakistan for domestic political advantage, enjoyed a rally-around-the-flag effect that gave it a useful boost one year after a worse-than-expected performance in national elections.
    Michael Kugelman, Time, 26 June 2026
Verb
  • As part of the annual rookie luncheon, the American Dairy Association — which also supplies the traditional winner’s bottle of milk for post-race celebration consumption — brings a cow to be milked by the debutants.
    Luke Smith, New York Times, 22 May 2026
  • But elsewhere, the film’s sporadic, accidental humor comes to its rescue — a scene involving a cow that clearly doesn’t want to be milked especially comes to mind.
    Tomris Laffly, Variety, 20 May 2026
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“Commercialized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commercialized. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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