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
  • One of the counterarguments raised by developers of apps that can be exploited once a device is compromised is that once that happens, all security bets are off.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 21 Sep. 2026
  • In a sense, the LLM found and exploited a loophole in the framing of the question.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2026
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  • The gathering of seven survivors includes one who was an adult when abused, a recognition of the new frontier of the abuse crisis facing the church.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Throughout the season, the show jumps back and forth from Lizzie’s story to the 1990s, where serial killer Aileen Wuornos (Sarah Paulson) is on the run after murdering a series of men who abused her.
    — Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2026
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  • Mac Haddow, with the American Kratom Association, said the FDA and states that have banned kratom are conflating the natural product with synthetic and chemically manipulated ones, which are associated with adverse effects and even deaths.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The FraudClassifier model distinguishes between payments initiated by authorized and unauthorized parties and explicitly recognizes situations in which an authorized party was manipulated or acted fraudulently.
    — Shahen Minasyan, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
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“Commodified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commodified. Accessed 28 Sep. 2026.

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