commodified

past tense of commodify
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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Verb
  • Critics warn that such emotional connections could be exploited commercially, turning intimacy into a product.
    Staff, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Google has issued a critical warning for all Android users, confirming that two separate vulnerabilities have been exploited in the wild.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Trump contends blue slips are being abused as a tool of partisan obstruction.
    Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 3 Sep. 2025
  • To an aspiring autocrat, power exists so that it can be abused.
    Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the area there are multiple objects that can be manipulated to cause a distraction — a feature that will be very familiar to fans of the IO Interactive’s Hitman series.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But all of it had been manipulated.
    Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Commodified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commodified. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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