as in abuses
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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But outside of the ring, Christy hides and represses her lesbianism and winds up marrying her trainer Jim Martin (Ben Foster), who manipulates and physically abuses her.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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The Chinese team developed a material that exploits this gradient to produce electricity.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Sep. 2025
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Community forum pages dedicated to rating Greek life organizations show some evidence of the chapters’ exploits over the last three years.—
Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
24 Aug. 2025
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After all, if an attacker hijacks the agent’s credentials or manipulates its input data, the agent could take harmful actions faster and more persistently than any human user.—
Michael DeCesare,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Commodifies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commodifies. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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