exploitation

Later this week, he is expected to change the government's stance on oil and gas exploitation, with a new energy secretary in place.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Young says he feels like he is a victim of big business exploitation, but -- like many -- he refuses to give up, saying "I do think that change is coming, because it has to."

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

They said they view the situation as an example of captive market exploitation and economic coercion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

It showed that the world’s largest economy wasn’t inevitable but was built over 250 years through ingenuity, exploitation, ambition, luck, government choices, private risk-taking and constant reinvention.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

In its crudest form, this exploitation of 'phasing’ could be demonstrated by setting off two pendulum metronomes at exactly the same time and precisely the same speed.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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