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The viral post, first published Friday, has elicited strong denials from major delivery apps that have been the subjects of past scrutiny for exploitive worker policies.—Lauren Wilson, NBC news, 7 Jan. 2026 In contrast, There Will Be Blood (2007) starring Daniel Day-Lewis was an angry portrait of an exploitive developer based on Upton Sinclair’s classic 1926 novel Oil.—Peter Bart, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025 While many of these agreements have been deeply flawed and exploitive, the firing of Shira Perlmutter represents a pivot to something much worse.—Sarah Montana, HollywoodReporter, 29 May 2025 The Black community’s relationship with growing food is colored by exploitive practices, from slavery to sharecropping, tenant farming and peonage, or debt servitude.—Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for exploitive