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commodify
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com·mod·i·fy  (k-md-f)
tr.v. com·mod·i·fied, com·mod·i·fy·ing, com·mod·i·fies
To turn into or treat as a commodity; make commercial: "Such music . . . commodifies the worst sorts of . . . stereotypes" (Michiko Kakutani).


com·modi·fia·ble adj.
com·modi·fi·cation (-f-kshn) n.
Translations
commodify [kəˈmɒdɪfaɪ] vttransformer en objet


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For her the practices of curiosity include "gossip, an unregulated exchange of an unverified information that commodifies others; hoarding, usury, and idleness, conceived as vicious kinds of acquisition that feed off society for personal gain; occult investigation, the pursuit of prohibited information about life beyond, before, or after death; and the public assertion of professional identity, the colonization of values by self-defined experts.
Apart from the fact that IVF is itself immoral in that it commodifies the child, separates the procreative and unitive function of the marriage act, and dishonours marriage, IVF can result in the death of nine out of ten embryos, which are discarded.
``Josie'' nails the same feeling even better and, in its one nod to realism, commodifies and commercializes it for your enhanced enjoyment.
 
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