as in exploited
disapproving
to treat (something that cannot be owned or that everyone has a right to) like a product that can be bought and sold
Do we really want to commodify our water supply? I feel like our culture is being commodified.
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Vulnerabilities in those systems have been exploited in high-profile attacks across DeFi.—
Tony Bradley,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025 -
Jeffrey Breinholt, an architect of the material support statutes who spent three decades as a federal terrorism prosecutor, defends the laws as crucial to closing loopholes that were exploited by foreign militant groups and their domestic sympathizers.—
Hannah Allam,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
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The court ruled that Particle plausibly alleged Epic abused its dominance in electronic health records to undermine competition in the payer platform market so that those claims will move forward into discovery.—
David Chou,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The 7-year-old detailed abuse by her father and stepmother, whose 6-year-old daughter was also allegedly being abused, according to the court documents.—
Mike Stunson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Sep. 2025
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Trump claimed without evidence that McEntarfer had manipulated statistics for political reasons.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
11 Sep. 2025
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By the end of the episode, Isaac is dead, Nibs has had part of her memory wiped, and Slightly has been manipulated by Morrow into letting one of the face-huggers turn Arthur into a Xenomorph incubator.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Commodified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commodified. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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