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commercialized

verb

past tense of commercialize

as in commodified

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The fraudsters used deepfakes to pose as the company’s chief financial officer on a video call.

— Muskaan Arshad, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
Metallurgical coal used for steelmaking was the last critical material to be given the designation in 2025.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026

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This notorious commercial entity, a precursor of the global corporations of today and big enough to command its own army, ruthlessly exploited foreign resources, human and material.

— Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
That signal can be aggregated, correlated, and exploited by hostile foreign intelligence services to anticipate our movements, targets, and timing.

— Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2026

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The indictment alleges that Lucas, who was first elected to the Senate in 1991, leveraged her position as chairman of the powerful committee to protect her marijuana enterprise.

— Dan Mangan, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026
One of those companies, which leveraged real-time location data, was acquired by Twitter in 2013.

— Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2026

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Buffaloes have to be milked regardless of whether dairies are operating, while production rules require that their milk be turned into mozzarella within 60 hours.

— Giada Zampano, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
There’s no reason why the Bills shouldn’t have milked the clock for two plays and kicked the field goal with about 40 seconds left.

— Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026

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