How to Use commercialize in a Sentence

commercialize

verb
  • The company hopes to commercialize the drug next year.
  • Collins hopes to commercialize the mask to sell for around $5.
    — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2021
  • That was and remains hard to pull off and commercialize.
    — New Atlas, 21 Dec. 2025
  • The lab hopes to commercialize and broadcast the new gel in the coming years.
    — Tom Li, The Mercury News, 1 Sep. 2024
  • That’s when the thought of equipping artists to commercialize their music first crossed his mind.
    — Priti Salian, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2021
  • Xerox, which had the idea in the first place, never commercialized it.
    — Adam Lashinsky, Washington Post, 24 June 2024
  • But the radical artists didn't want their work to be commercialized.
    — Chris Ball, cleveland.com, 8 May 2017
  • It was first commercialized in the 1840s, and soon gained renown among artists.
    — Katherine Kornei, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Well, over several years, but being commercialized or brought to light over the past year.
    — Michael Calore, WIRED, 20 July 2023
  • If the product had been approved, Lykos would have the sole rights to commercialize it for five years.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Amionx was spun out about five years ago to commercialize the technology.
    — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2022
  • If commercialized, these routes would become the longest in the world at about 19 hours.
    — Jay L. Zagorsky, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Many nations attempt to sell or commercialize data to recoup some of the costs.
    — OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Tremendous progress has been made to commercialize this technology, but there is still some work to be done.
    — Jack Hidary, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • When everything around us is commercialized, style is one of the few things that feels…personal.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2023
  • It was commercialized in March with the La Roche-Posay brand.
    — Jenny B. Fine, WWD, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The team are now working to commercialize the ancient practices for modern use.
    — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 7 Jan. 2023
  • The researchers are working with a biotech firm to commercialize the cancer-fighting nanobots.
    — NBC News, 30 Mar. 2018
  • His confidence, and will to commercialize, have about them the whiff of charlatanism.
    — Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
  • Katharine did give us the foundational science, even if her version of the glass was too soft to commercialize.
    — Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026
  • To commercialize an offering, Google would first need to get its hands on more records, which tend to vary widely across health providers.
    — Mark Bergen, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2018
  • Similar private and state-led gas line projects to commercialize North Slope gas have failed for decades.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The plant would represent a new stage in the quest to commercialize nuclear fusion, the process which powers the stars.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN, 18 Dec. 2024
  • However, they have not been commercialized due to a lot of technical challenges.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Jan. 2026
  • In any case, Topps has paid for the right to access these players’ likenesses in an effort to commercialize them.
    — Jeff Gapusan, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Never mind that the technology for such an enormous buildout had yet to be commercialized.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 June 2026
  • Haran’s group is now in the process of trying to commercialize their motor through a spinout called Hinetics.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2023
  • Most of the businesses along Route 66 these days are pretty commercialized, canned, and safe.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2018
  • Some Letterboxd users, who feared the new owner would commercialize the site, viewed the sale with suspicion.
    — Max Tani, semafor.com, 27 Apr. 2026
  • About 97% of patents are said to gather dust, and one reason is that there is no one who can successfully commercialize them .
    — Dileep Rao, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023

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