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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Decades before the internet, Gunness exploited men’s loneliness — luring them to her hog farm with the promise of romance and sending many to a shallow grave beneath the Indiana soil.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
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Anything a user does on Max—and everything Max can collect, such as geolocation data, contacts, photos, and audio—could presumably be accessed and exploited by the state.—
Justin Sherman,
The Atlantic,
11 Oct. 2025
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She had been abused as a child and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
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For over a year, it was then used and abused for testing, much of it on Ferrari’s Fiorano track.—
Erik Shilling,
Robb Report,
13 Oct. 2025
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The codes of Versace are very strong and Vitale manipulated the familiar in a playful way.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
8 Oct. 2025
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But those sensors can be manipulated.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Commodified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commodified. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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