How to Use exploitative in a Sentence
exploitative
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Please know, the anguish of his death is not exploitative.
— Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024 -
The book was about the exploitative nature of record contracts.
— David Arditi, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2023 -
And so many people don't even make it that far in the hands of exploitative smugglers.
— CBS News, 3 July 2022 -
This is a strangely exploitative place, full of Web sites with names such as goldeneggdonation.com.
— Akhil Sharma, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022 -
Why doesn’t or can’t Ricky, in your view, leave a job that is clearly exploitative?
— Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2020 -
The company aimed to make movies with all-Black casts that weren’t exploitative.
— Nathan Fenno, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2021 -
And nothing about the script was exploitative, in my opinion.
— Lauren Huff, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2019 -
Sometimes tourism is so exploitative—in Hawaii, most of the food comes from off the island and most of the money goes off island too.
— Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2024 -
But on the other, many working artists consider the use of their art to train AI to be exploitative.
— Robert Mahari, Fortune, 17 June 2023 -
The more central and essential the bots become, the greater the risk that they’ll be used in extractive and exploitative ways.
— Katherine Cross, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023 -
Critics of the genre argue that true crime is exploitative and voyeuristic, and there’s no doubt that’s part of its allure.
— Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023 -
Given the subject matter, Noyce and Watts were concerned that the film not be exploitative.
— Brent Lang, Variety, 14 Sep. 2021 -
Now states are working to pass laws to halt exploitative A.I. images.
— Natasha Singer, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2024 -
But the more our culture brands such exploitative recordings as tasteless and taboo, the better.
— Michael Gallant, Billboard, 15 May 2024 -
Some are lethal, some are exploitative, some are permeable to love.
— Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2022 -
There's a lot of drug use, and there's a lot of partying, and there's a lot of nudity and stuff, which can often feel exploitative.
— Lauren Goode, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024 -
But at the same time, Only Murders doesn’t excuse the exploitative choice to record a podcast about a neighbor’s death.
— Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2021 -
This is a film about performance too, and how exploitative playing the role of a real-life person can be.
— Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2023 -
The relics are a dark reminder of how the body parts of indigenous people were swapped and sold in a grisly, exploitative trade, not just in Germany, but around the world.
— Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 14 June 2023 -
The fallout led to questions about how the show, considered by many to be cruel and exploitative, was allowed to run for more than a decade.
— Rob Picheta, CNN, 27 Oct. 2019 -
At the time, Bolivians saw him as an exploitative mining baron.
— Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2020 -
Critics have called the furniture-rental business exploitative in the past.
— Joseph Pisani, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2020 -
This exploitative assumption turned out to be very wrong.
— The Editors, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2023 -
Other fat women go through the same kinds of exploitative and degrading things.
— Virgie Tovar, Good Housekeeping, 25 Mar. 2021 -
Some of these films and TV shows are transcendent and affecting, while others are exploitative and in poor taste.
— Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2022 -
The labor market is broken, and exploitative practices on both sides of the law aren't all that different.
— Thomas Page, CNN, 29 Jan. 2022 -
Both types of work are grueling and exploitative, and the people doing them face government bans of the tools of their livelihoods.
— Zoë Beery, The Atlantic, 31 May 2022 -
American farming is, by design and not by nature, an exploitative shell game, run by those wealthy enough to write the rules.
— Nick Martin, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2020 -
In a fashion, this is a film that takes advantage of friendship but is never exploitative.
— Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022 -
What’s missing is the tongue-in-cheek exploitative quality of giallo.
— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
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