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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Anyone who abuses a position of power and jeopardizes our national security will be held accountable.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025 -
Bowles abuses those pass-blocking rules by stunting the three-technique, Logan Hall (90), across the left guard's face, knowing the guard will follow him.—
Derrik Klassen,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
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This scam exploits wireless technology to withdraw money without your awareness.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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Kimmel’s exploits catching — and sometimes getting bitten by — giant pythons are the stuff of legend in Florida.—
Rich Schapiro,
NBC news,
2 Nov. 2025
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The Overlook Hotel is, yes, sinister and even demonic, taunting Jack Torrance with bizarre visions that Kubrick manipulates to create a mounting sense of dread.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
30 Oct. 2025
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This created a tunable metasurface, a structured layer that manipulates how waves interact with the surface, allowing the coating to absorb radar signals across various frequencies.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Commodifies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commodifies. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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