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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This must include continuous exposure management, identity context, telemetry correlation, human-in-the-loop controls and the ability to validate and simulate adversary paths before they are exploited.—
Tom Kellermann,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026 -
On top of this, one of the best methods for destabilising a block is to use runners in behind to drag defenders around and open space that can be exploited by other players.—
Jon Mackenzie,
New York Times,
27 May 2026
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Over the ensuing years, the estate worked aggressively to manage and grow the estate’s assets, in tandem with fighting off a growing number of allegations from men who said that the singer had abused them as children.—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
27 May 2026
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Organizers are now working with local police and monitoring cameras to make sure the system is not being abused.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
22 May 2026
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But Cepeda and Petro on Sunday night sowed doubt in the result and claimed — so far without evidence — that hundreds of thousands of votes were manipulated and that foreign actors interfered with the result.—
Megan Janetsky,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2026
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This person set him up and was manipulated in many ways.—
Laura Sirikul,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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“Commodified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commodified. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.
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