How to Use exploitative in a Sentence

exploitative

adjective

• Please know, the anguish of his death is not exploitative.
  — Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
• The book was about the exploitative nature of record contracts.
  — David Arditi, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2023
• And so many people don't even make it that far in the hands of exploitative smugglers.
  — CBS News, 3 July 2022
• This is a strangely exploitative place, full of Web sites with names such as goldeneggdonation.com.
  — Akhil Sharma, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• Why doesn’t or can’t Ricky, in your view, leave a job that is clearly exploitative?
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2020
• The company aimed to make movies with all-Black casts that weren’t exploitative.
  — Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2021
• Sometimes tourism is so exploitative—in Hawaii, most of the food comes from off the island and most of the money goes off island too.
  — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2024
• But on the other, many working artists consider the use of their art to train AI to be exploitative.
  — Robert Mahari, Fortune, 17 June 2023
• The more central and essential the bots become, the greater the risk that they’ll be used in extractive and exploitative ways.
  — Katherine Cross, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
• Critics of the genre argue that true crime is exploitative and voyeuristic, and there’s no doubt that’s part of its allure.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• Given the subject matter, Noyce and Watts were concerned that the film not be exploitative.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 14 Sep. 2021
• Now states are working to pass laws to halt exploitative A.I. images.
  — Natasha Singer, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2024
• But the more our culture brands such exploitative recordings as tasteless and taboo, the better.
  — Michael Gallant, Billboard, 15 May 2024
• Some are lethal, some are exploitative, some are permeable to love.
  — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2022
• But at the same time, Only Murders doesn’t excuse the exploitative choice to record a podcast about a neighbor’s death.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2021
• This is a film about performance too, and how exploitative playing the role of a real-life person can be.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2023
• The relics are a dark reminder of how the body parts of indigenous people were swapped and sold in a grisly, exploitative trade, not just in Germany, but around the world.
  — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 14 June 2023
• At the time, Bolivians saw him as an exploitative mining baron.
  — Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2020
• Critics have called the furniture-rental business exploitative in the past.
  — Joseph Pisani, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2020
• This exploitative assumption turned out to be very wrong.
  — The Editors, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2023
• Other fat women go through the same kinds of exploitative and degrading things.
  — Virgie Tovar, Good Housekeeping, 25 Mar. 2021
• Some of these films and TV shows are transcendent and affecting, while others are exploitative and in poor taste.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2022
• The labor market is broken, and exploitative practices on both sides of the law aren't all that different.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 29 Jan. 2022
• Both types of work are grueling and exploitative, and the people doing them face government bans of the tools of their livelihoods.
  — Zoë Beery, The Atlantic, 31 May 2022
• American farming is, by design and not by nature, an exploitative shell game, run by those wealthy enough to write the rules.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2020
• In a fashion, this is a film that takes advantage of friendship but is never exploitative.
  — Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022
• And police found exploitative videos of Volar abusing girls who appeared as young as 12, the Post reported.
  — NBC News, 29 Nov. 2021
• This brought up the age-old question: exploitative or inclusive?
  — Emma Flint, Wired, 2 Dec. 2021
• There were also concerns over how Disney would handle the exploitative and violent history of the treatment of a number of groups.
  — Jared Bahir Browsh, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2024
• Some of MrBeast’s success has come at the expense of an allegedly exploitative and dangerous workplace culture.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024