These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'reify.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2020 He was bewildered by the rise of a style of identity politics that reified the fictions of race and, through its fixation on diversity in élite spaces, abandoned the working class. Over the years the it has evolved but one thing has remained th. Shannon Pufahl, The New York Review of Books, 21 Apr. Knoword is a site that I first reviewed more than eight years ago. 2020 In each of these representative cases, statistics reified not just social affiliation but identity itself.

2022 So long as the university and the aforementioned movements stand against classic literature, mere op-eds will do little to reify our commitment to great books, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid will replace George Orwell.ĭaniel Buck, National Review, 6 June 2021 Especially during Reconstruction, the trope served to continue the dehumanization of Black women following slavery and to reify white womanhood, Lindsey said.

New York Times, 15 June 2022 What began as a passion project to reify a history lesson has since transformed into a cautionary tale.Ĭhelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 June 2022 The challenge, Ninh acknowledges, is to talk about success in terms that don’t merely reify the myth of the model minority.

Kristen Roupenian, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022 Guns are central to this worldview, and the Buffalo video shows in real time their power to reify belief into deed. Recent Examples on the Web Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Ousmane Sembène, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie-along with many others-have produced extraordinary works of fiction that strive to reconceive national bonds (in Kenya, Senegal, and Nigeria, respectively), rather than reify them.

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