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commodified

verb

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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And as Tzolis and Arsenal have been showing in the opening weeks of 2026-27, this diagonal pass can be devastating if it is exploited well.

— Jon Mackenzie, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Clancy is, in these tellings, a victim of spousal abuse akin to torture, whose partner cruelly exploited her postpartum suffering in order to dispose of his family.

— Elizabeth Bruenig, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026

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The first leg was stopped after Vinicius Junior said he had been racially abused by Benfica’s Gianluca Prestianni, who denied the allegation.

— Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
As a result of the accusation, police mailed letters to around 200 parents that warned them their child could have been abused and asked for information, while therapy clinic Children’s Institute International conducted interviews with students.

— Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026

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