How to Use exploitation in a Sentence

exploitation

noun
  • And the exploitation doesn’t stop there.
    — Christine Villabona-Kuntz, New York Daily News, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Gimmicks and exploitation have saved film over and over.
    — William Earl, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Some will find the very attempt to make a movie about this event an act of exploitation.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Yet the exploitation of the salt flat is set to increase further still.
    — John Bartlett, NPR, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The show is a study of exploitation at all levels that’s often painful to watch.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Who is to blame for this kind of soul-deadening exploitation?
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
  • But critics say those shows are outliers, and that most of the genre is pure exploitation.
    — The Week Us, TheWeek, 4 May 2026
  • Still, the stunts—then as now—reek of exploitation, and the victims are those least equipped to resist.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Its exploitation would raise murky questions about who owns the water and can access it.
    — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • But in some ways, her exploitation has only worsened in the decades since her passing.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2024
  • In brief, exploitation was built into the medium.
    — Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
  • So that’s where a lot of the exploitation began, from my perspective.
    — Felice León, Essence, 14 June 2023
  • The nature of that exploitation is a surprise best left unspoiled.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2022
  • That puts them at greater risk of trafficking and exploitation, experts say.
    — Lautaro Grinspan, ajc, 6 July 2023
  • The great auk, however, faced a more direct form of exploitation.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Nowhere is this easier to see than in the exploitation and harming of women.
    — Jens Ludwig, Chicago Tribune, 7 Oct. 2024
  • 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 is there a point where the search for a compelling sports narrative becomes a form of exploitation?
    — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 6 July 2022
  • There’s no exploitation happening here at all.
    — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 18 Feb. 2026
  • This careless exploitation of the heavens above is a real danger to us all.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2026
  • But workers who are more informed about the terms of their exploitation are still exploited.
    — Sandeep Vaheesan, The New Republic, 29 Aug. 2023
  • This means that the studios need writers to pursue copyrights and exploitation of such works.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2023
  • There would have been a Covid exploitation movie in two minutes in the Sixties.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 17 Aug. 2022
  • On the factory floor, time became a tool for the exploitation of workers.
    — Fred Turner, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Our thoughts are with everyone affected by abuse or exploitation in any form.
    — Sean Mandell, PEOPLE, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Too often, by the time exploitation is detected, the money is gone for good.
    — Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026
  • But fairness is not the same as financial exploitation.
    — Jaime Huff, Oc Register, 31 Jan. 2026
  • On the ground, law enforcement agents note the exploitation by smugglers knows no borders.
    — Dallas News, 26 June 2021
  • Is there a coarsening of the audience, an exploitation of the stars?
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Direct exploitation of wildlife has long been a key driver of extinction.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025

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