commercialize
verb (used with object)
to make commercial in character, methods, or spirit.
have commercialized
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present perfectof commercialize.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Their theory is that Gilead should have commercialized TAF earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
This won’t be the first time D-Wave has made computers available for purchase: The company is broadly considered the first to have commercialized the technology for selling a system to Lockheed Martin in 2011.
From Barron's ● Jan. 7, 2026
Without the existing patent protections, "Monsanto could not have commercialized its invention," Monsanto lawyer Seth Waxman said.
From Reuters ● Feb. 19, 2013
Benny Goodman is currently the peer of "hot" white musicians, having supplanted the Dorsey Brothers, who have commercialized their idiom.
From Time Magazine Archive
"They have commercialized it," frowned the managing editor.
From H. R. by Edwin Lefevre
