commercialized

verb

past tense of commercialize
as in commodified

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for commercialized
  1. used
  2. exploited
  3. leveraged
  4. milked
Verb
  • Fittingly, the hotel takes great care to disrupt its surroundings as little as possible; a geothermal well services the property’s heating and cooling, and plants that draw mosquito-eating birds are used in place of pesticides.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Oct. 2026
  • The team then used in-situ polymerization to turn the mixture into a more robust polymer matrix.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2026
Definition of used
Verb
  • This notorious commercial entity, a precursor of the global corporations of today and big enough to command its own army, ruthlessly exploited foreign resources, human and material.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
  • That signal can be aggregated, correlated, and exploited by hostile foreign intelligence services to anticipate our movements, targets, and timing.
    — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of exploited
Verb
  • Plus, the brand’s expansive archive is something to be leveraged, not left aside.
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Buffered and leveraged ETFs may have a place in certain strategies, but they are rarely substitutes for a thoughtful long-term allocation.
    — Daniel Kern, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of leveraged
Verb
  • Buffaloes have to be milked regardless of whether dairies are operating, while production rules require that their milk be turned into mozzarella within 60 hours.
    — Giada Zampano, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • There’s no reason why the Bills shouldn’t have milked the clock for two plays and kicked the field goal with about 40 seconds left.
    — Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of milked
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