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commodified

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past tense of commodify

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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Their rackets—plunder, opium trafficking, and much else—were often run not by members of established yakuza gangs but by fixers and political operators who exploited their connections with the Imperial Japanese Army.

— Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Our state definitely has major problems, which are exploited gleefully around each election cycle.

— Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026

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Macedo wrote a letter to Steve Kawa, the chair of the authority’s board, ahead of the meeting saying that Choudri had misused taxpayer money and abused public trust.

— Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 10 Oct. 2026
Krems said the nanny, Chun-May Lee, who allegedly abused the children, was quickly fired.

— Austin Turner, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026

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Roughly half of the 10 patients in the study had some vision restoration after researchers injected them with a gene to make their retina produce a light-sensing protein so that it could be manipulated.

— O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026
The senses of anyone entering these tombs were heavily manipulated.

— Jacqueline Ortoleva, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2026

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