How to Use exploitation in a Sentence

exploitation

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  • The show is a study of exploitation at all levels that’s often painful to watch.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
  • In that sense, the 82nd Air Assault Brigade is an all-in-one assault and exploitation force.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • All of that for fifty quid a week… David and Defries were both equally guilty in this exploitation.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 4 Apr. 2024
  • And two, to ensure that at least one of the show’s subject matters isn’t present: exploitation.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • So that’s where a lot of the exploitation began, from my perspective.
    — Felice León, Essence, 14 June 2023
  • The artists put out of work today will be replaced by many more in years to come, enabled by exploitation of this new tool.
    — Rachel Shin, Fortune, 5 June 2023
  • But in some ways, her exploitation has only worsened in the decades since her passing.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2024
  • On the factory floor, time became a tool for the exploitation of workers.
    — Fred Turner, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • This means that the studios need writers to pursue copyrights and exploitation of such works.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2023
  • But workers who are more informed about the terms of their exploitation are still exploited.
    — Sandeep Vaheesan, The New Republic, 29 Aug. 2023
  • That puts them at greater risk of trafficking and exploitation, experts say.
    — Lautaro Grinspan, ajc, 6 July 2023
  • Your work mines the exploitation of labor, of capital, of culture.
    — WIRED, 22 June 2023
  • The company has also struggled to stem child exploitation on the platform.
    — Shane Harris, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
  • An Irish priest who spent time in Maryland, Patrick Smyth, castigated the priests who ran the plantations for their exploitation of slaves.
    — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 27 June 2023
  • South Korea is clamping down on exploitation in the K-pop industry.
    — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Kohli says these circumstances often lead to abuse or exploitation.
    — Time, 28 June 2023
  • Can the kitchen, a space so often associated with the drudgery of domestic labor and exploitation, free us from some of those same constraints?
    — Adam Federman, The New Republic, 7 July 2023
  • It was later revealed that the financial exploitation stemmed from purchases made by her son, Kevin Hunter Jr., who addressed this in the docuseries.
    — Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Snapchat, meanwhile, has reportedly seen a rise in child exploitation since 2020.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Friedman’s voice-over reminds us that inequality has been a topic of human concern for hundreds of years, courtesy of do-gooders who claim that the wealth of the rich rests on the exploitation of the poor.
    — Kim Phillips-Fein, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Fortune spoke with more than a dozen AI developers and founders about how to prevent exploitation from these uncensored sites.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The question becomes how to ensure AI doesn’t lead to the exploitation of artists and the further deterioration of the business model that supports their work.
    — Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Almost 40 percent of species used by humans are threatened by this diverse range of human exploitation.
    — Lesley Evans Ogden, Scientific American, 29 June 2023
  • The company formed the council in 2016 to address hate speech, harassment, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm and other problems on the platform.
    — Barbara Ortutay, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Years of exploitation, shootings, poisonings and explosions had rocked the community and left it soaked in blood.
    — Angela Aleiss, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The outraged insect then befriends a human florist (Renée Zellweger) who helps him to bring legal action against this unfair exploitation.
    — Danny Horn, EW.com, 31 Jan. 2024
  • My greatest fear is that this trajectory of exploitation will continue in the recovery from the Maui wildfires.
    — Time, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Savior Complex doesn’t need to provide a lecture, or a fifteen-minute historical sequence, on the West’s exploitation of Africa through the centuries.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2023
  • And yet the strategic exploitation of space now extends well beyond military concerns.
    — Jon Gertner, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Escape and exploitation Chae-ran made her first escape after finishing high school.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024

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