exploitative
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"The extractive industry is often exploitative and prone to gross human rights abuses that must be monitored and enforced," Julius Ogogoh, the director of the lobby group, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
“It’s exploitative and frankly disrespectful and infuriating that that is kind of a last-ditch effort to suggest to my community ... that they’ve been wrong the whole time,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
Mr. Dasgupta recommends not a return to empire—he exposes China’s exploitative, extractive relationships with African nations as little more than reheated Western colonialism—but what he calls a “new theology.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
The speech was exploitative, but not demeaning, and the public forgave Nixon.
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
There was no exploitative question asked, no especially revealing detail offered.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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