commoditize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of commoditize
First recorded in 1975–80; commodit(y) + -ize
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“It’s just an interesting dynamic to see who will be able to commoditize who faster,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
"You do not want to commoditize the product," Farley said at a Wall Street Journal forum.
From Reuters ● May 3, 2023
If you commoditize the hardware and say, “I am going to run my own software,” do those companies worry it is just a race to the bottom?
From The Verge ● Aug. 9, 2022
Admittedly my first intention was maybe more of a navel-gazy, poetic film about design and what happens when you commoditize air-conditioned square feet.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2022
“Then that pile of information becomes additive towards this real understanding, that we have completely forgotten the value of wild in our rush to commoditize this animal.”
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2019
Saeed has said many of her larger competitors do commoditized work in comparison.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
“It is hard to overstate how unusual this is: a historically cyclical, commoditized segment moving from value destruction to the top of the global league table in just a few years,” Talbott said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 3, 2026
Since the memory-chip business has largely been commoditized, companies like Micron usually could charge only slightly more for their chips than it cost to manufacture them.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 3, 2026
A better explanation: Apple will keep control of customer data and thus expects to be able in the future to play commoditized providers of AI off each other.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
“They’ve laid so much fiber in the ground that they’ve basically commoditized themselves. They are going to get into massive price wars with everyone and it’s going to be a disaster.”
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
However, under an equally plausible reading of the evidence, the companies are black holes of spending on rapidly commoditizing capabilities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
She does not see those crass, commoditizing forces as quite so inevitable, and she wonders why proverbial “New Yorkers,” with surpluses of their own, would perpetuate them.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2022
Analogous to the business theory of disruptive innovation, undercutting the price of 80 percent of dental care may have the unintended consequence of commoditizing much of the profession.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2017
But he said he had no regrets about trying to maximize the power of his vote by commoditizing it.
From Reuters ● Nov. 7, 2016
Sure, PCs were more powerful, but in commoditizing the PC marketplace with its chips, Intel had created a situation in which proprietary software vendors now held the power.
From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Sam Williams
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