exploitation
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Attorneys for Lipa filed the suit Friday in a US court in California, claiming "massive, continuing, unauthorized commercial exploitation of her valuable image and likeness by Samsung on cardboard television boxes."
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
Karl Marx developed a materialist version of the story: New technologies inevitably created new forms of class exploitation, all pointing to the inevitability of communism.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
The event’s mission is buried while its exploitation continues to be valuable currency.
From Salon • May 1, 2026
“They expose vulnerable people to exploitation, deny them appropriate care, undermine trust in Medicare, and, when left unchecked, distort the data and assumptions federal policymakers rely upon to oversee these benefits.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026
It was the first appearance of Lawrence’s method for building the world’s first great Big Science laboratory: the remorseless exploitation of cheap graduate-student labor, a resource he would soon have in surfeit.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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