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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
reify .
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Examples
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We live in a culture that reifies and fears the “other.”
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We live in a culture that reifies and fears the “other.”
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Goar reifies the interconnectivity of our highly-plastic American iconography--seamlessly integrating cultural touchstones from Ozzie Smith to Richard Nixon to the Immaculate Conception--and in so doing succeeds at an even greater task: Penning a collection of poems brilliantly of and for its time.
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You can go deep into the politics of desire or you can paddle in the shallows and just end up producing something that reifies heteronormativity.
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Less protection against white violence reifies segregation.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism
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Goar reifies the interconnectivity of our highly-plastic American iconography--seamlessly integrating cultural touchstones from Ozzie Smith to Richard Nixon to the Immaculate Conception--and in so doing succeeds at an even greater task: Penning a collection of poems brilliantly of and for its time.
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Here is how rivalry becomes so productive to the two partner-rivals: It lays down, gives authority to, and absolutely reifies in the world's mind's eye the essential order of things.
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Less protection against white violence reifies segregation.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism
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ID reifies mind, one way or another, and in that ID is in the perfectly fine company of many philosophers.
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ID reifies mind, one way or another, and in that ID is in the perfectly fine company of many philosophers.
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