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exploitation

[ek-sploi-tay-shuhn] / ˌɛk splɔɪˈteɪ ʃən /
NOUN
taking advantage
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The move is one of the boldest yet to legitimize the billions of dollars worth of gold unearthed by informal miners, a business often associated with worker exploitation and environmental damage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Tina Wolfson, one of the lawyers representing the plaintiffs, said the case also centers on Meta’s surveillance of people’s lives without their consent and the exploitation of their image and likeness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

"We share the UK's commitment to combating exploitation and abuse online, and have shared with UK officials future plans to strengthen Communication Safety and other tools even further to help keep kids safe," they said.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

The Moroccan interior ministry has blamed the sudden surge on the "malicious exploitation" of social media and the "spread of misleading information".

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

But a new kind of society also appeared in some places, based primarily on the exploitation of animals: tribes of pastoralist herders.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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

“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

On one hand, it is good for people to come out against years if not decades of exploitations.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2017

These expeditions were not merely commercial exploitations, although there was plenty of that.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan


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