commercialize

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Recent Examples of commercialize Similarly, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan have commercialized their expertise in data aggregation and analysis, signaling a shift toward more collaborative and efficient data ecosystems. Christer Holloman, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025 The company has already completed a pilot project with poultry, in an attempt to measure their well-being, but didn’t end up commercializing it. Chris Stokel-Walker, Fortune, 26 June 2025 For purists, this installation may seem closer to commercializing a product than fine art. Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 20 June 2025 Steele told me how witnessing this coming of Victory is a guide to ownership in hip-hop culture, as most acts of that era were not necessarily privy on exactly how to commercialize their real rap. Ime Ekpo, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for commercialize
Recent Examples of Synonyms for commercialize
Verb
  • Trying to commodify it in fragments misses the point.
    Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
  • If the sole aim of a company is to profit, extraction and exploitation become the norm as businesses seek new resources to commodify.
    Aissa Dearing, JSTOR Daily, 9 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • This is when the teen uses social conflict to express frustration.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
  • In this case, the Department of Homeland Security directly contacted state officials about using a quiet, remote airstrip to put up a soft-sided series of structures in which ICE detainees could be held pending court hearings.
    Anna Giaritelli, The Washington Examiner, 6 July 2025
Verb
  • Lunn promised to provide low-cost necessities—groceries, coal, and ice for the pre-electric era iceboxes—by starting city-run businesses to compete with private merchants who exploited their poor customers.
    Time, Time, 22 July 2025
  • Given that many forms of manufacturing are labor-intensive, any country where the cost of labor is lower than the cost in the U.S. can exploit such an opportunity.
    Sheldon H. Jacobson, Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2025
Verb
  • Can Nigeria leverage its Olympic successes to secure a historic fifth crown?
    Sindiswa Mabunda, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
  • Philippines Seeking Deal: Trump is set to meet at the White House with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines, who is seeking to leverage his country’s close relationship with the United States to secure a more favorable trade deal.
    New York Times, New York Times, 25 July 2025
Verb
  • Gibson was also convicted of two counts of trafficking a person, pimping, pandering, keeping a place of prostitution, battery, possession of a firearm during commission of felony and other crimes, Fulton County media relations director Pallavi Bailey said.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 22 July 2025
  • Now, Townsend is being held without bail, facing charges of trafficking the girl through coercion, as well as pandering and pimping.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 23 May 2025

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“Commercialize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commercialize. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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