exploitation
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“Accordingly, LSU must immediately cease and desist from any further issue use, display, publication, distribution, promotion, commercialization, or other exploitation of Mr. Daniels’ NIL in any manner or medium,” Kenner wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The charity Save the Children has called for urgent efforts to locate and register all minors, warning that girls in particular face "heightened risks of violence, trafficking and exploitation".
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
“It certainly feels like an area that could be ripe for exploitation if people are not careful,” Van Noy said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
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
Even as convict leasing faded away, strategic forms of exploitation and repression emerged anew.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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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
While Michael Jackson was scarred by his father’s tyrannical exploitations, Beyoncé fired her father, took possession of the torch, and kept on perfecting.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2021
Mr. Plummer’s résumé, which stretched over seven decades, was at least colossal, if not nonpareil, encompassing acting opportunities from some of dramatic literature’s greatest works to some of commercial entertainment’s crassest exploitations.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2021
“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
These expeditions were not merely commercial exploitations, although there was plenty of that.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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