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exploitative

[ik-sploi-tuh-tiv] / ɪkˈsplɔɪ tə tɪv /




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Roy has promised to keep more Angelenos housed and protect their livelihoods through “affirmative litigation” — suits brought against slumlords and exploitative corporations under the state’s Unfair Competition Law.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Yet the incorporation into this already complex dynamic of the class divide—which figures here as something like a barbed-wire fence that’s draped in velvet—further sharpens the exploitative edge of nonfiction cinema’s natural voyeurism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Chutzpah, however, is sometimes all it takes to get this kind of baffling, brazen and potentially exploitative deal across the finish line.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

But that breakthrough represented the first effort in a long career spent exposing exploitative working conditions for women other journalists diminished or outright dismissed.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026

There was no exploitative question asked, no especially revealing detail offered.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama


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