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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reify.

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Examples

  • We live in a culture that reifies and fears the “other.”

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • We live in a culture that reifies and fears the “other.”

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • 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.

    Seth Abramson: February 2012 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2012

  • 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.

    Fanfiction Hal Duncan 2010

  • Less protection against white violence reifies segregation.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism 2010

  • 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.

    Seth Abramson: February 2012 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2012

  • 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.

    Michael Vlahos: America and China: Partners or Rivals? Michael Vlahos 2011

  • Less protection against white violence reifies segregation.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Bruce Bartlett’s Attack on Libertarianism 2010

  • ID reifies mind, one way or another, and in that ID is in the perfectly fine company of many philosophers.

    Are dem bunny prints? 2008

  • ID reifies mind, one way or another, and in that ID is in the perfectly fine company of many philosophers.

    Are dem bunny prints? 2008

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