commerciality
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of commerciality
First recorded in 1860–65; commercial + -ity
Example Sentences
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In the process, Seattle became the first petri dish for the coming viral explosion of the NBA’s commerciality.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 2023
"The commerciality of those plants will be determined by mainly the market".
From Reuters • Mar. 23, 2022
But the celebrations were also awash with commerciality.
From Washington Post • Jul. 2, 2021
It plateaued toward the end of the ’70s, and then you can hear the commerciality creeping in, rather than inventiveness.
From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2019
It has been said that wood-engravers killed their own art so far as journalism was concerned by their surrender to commerciality with its frequent demand for the ready-to-hand rather than the superior thing.
From George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians by Wood, T. Martin
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