exploitation
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Another will permit the EU’s finance arm, the European Investment Bank, to work in Canada, with a focus on joint investments in Canadian critical materials and their exploitation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
An elder-law attorney can review any existing powers of attorney or other documents, explain who has authority to act on his behalf and also give you advice on your options if you suspect financial exploitation.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
A: Historically, the exploitation rate for vulnerabilities has been five or six percent, and there's no indication that number is going up.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
The Undersecretary for the Philippines Department of Justice, Nicholas Ty, told the BBC that "the matter is currently being investigated" by an anti-human trafficking and child sexual exploitation task force in Cebu.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Those Indigenous peoples and their descendants resisted invasion of their homelands and centuries of destruction and exploitation by the colonizers.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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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
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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