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exploitation

[ek-sploi-tay-shuhn] / ˌɛk splɔɪˈteɪ ʃən /
NOUN
taking advantage
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The woman wore luxurious clothing and stood confidently, not half-clothed as an object of exploitation like some other colonial-era paintings of Black women.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Tina Wolfson, one of the lawyers representing the plaintiffs, said the case also centers on Meta’s surveillance of people’s lives without their consent and the exploitation of their image and likeness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

In July, after BBC's investigation, Meta had put out a detailed post on its website, external about how it fights child exploitation on its apps.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

"We investigate the evolution of domestication in animals, which also gives us information to improve the exploitation of insects for consumption, both as animal feed and for human consumption," Librado concludes.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

Even as convict leasing faded away, strategic forms of exploitation and repression emerged anew.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Popeye also gives us a window into how a character’s entry into the public domain doesn’t require subsequent exploitations to adhere to his or her original conception.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024

Escaping a Gilded Age takes more than just clever protagonists who can outwit the cruelties and exploitations of the wealthy few.

From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2020

“I know there are exploitations that have happened, but not in South Dakota,” Rep. Linda Duba, a Sioux Falls Democrat, said.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 6, 2020

The dignity in doing such a job is a million miles away from the well-documented exploitations that people endure to earn a paycheck at one of Amazon’s warehouses.

From The Verge ● Jun. 26, 2018

These expeditions were not merely commercial exploitations, although there was plenty of that.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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