commodifying

verb

present participle of commodify
as in exploiting
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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  1. exploiting
  2. abusing
  3. manipulating
Verb
  • Every improvement in surveillance capability encourages new methods of avoidance, whether through disabling tracking devices, manipulating vessel identities, or exploiting gaps between different monitoring systems.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 16 July 2026
  • Based in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Amuse Labs is a digital animation studio and production company focused on creating, producing and internationally exploiting children’s content for broadcasters and digital platforms.
    — Emiliano de Pablos, Variety, 16 July 2026
Definition of exploiting
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  • But this marks the first time someone inside the White House has been investigated for allegedly abusing that access for prediction market profits.
    — Bobby Allyn, NPR, 16 July 2026
  • Pitt has been accused of allegedly abusing Jolie and their children.
    — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2026
Definition of abusing
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  • The company has repeatedly denied manipulating election results and says its technology contains safeguards designed to detect irregularities.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026
  • The film sees the Laestrygonians reimagined as gargantuan armored knights who trap Odysseus’s men in cages formed by manipulating the forest woods, destroying two of his three ships in the process.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 17 July 2026
Definition of manipulating
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