as in to exploit
disapproving
to treat (something that cannot be owned or that everyone has a right to) like a product that can be bought and sold
Do we really want to commodify our water supply? I feel like our culture is being commodified.
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Recent Examples of commodify
The play isn’t subtle in presenting its allegory of national racial dysfunction—the white family’s self-absorption in the face of Black suffering, and their swift move to commodify it—but Jacobs-Jenkins’s dramatic machinery is often immensely effective.
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Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
The five young women in the group must navigate the dark side of a glamorous industry determined to commodify them.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Feb. 2023
Candyman is the most disappointing film of the year so far, limning not only the artistic failures of the individuals who ushered it to life, but the artistic failures of an entire industry that seeks to commodify Blackness to embolden its bottom line.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2021
There was no obvious way to commodify Paik’s art.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2023
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Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
The five young women in the group must navigate the dark side of a glamorous industry determined to commodify them.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Feb. 2023
Candyman is the most disappointing film of the year so far, limning not only the artistic failures of the individuals who ushered it to life, but the artistic failures of an entire industry that seeks to commodify Blackness to embolden its bottom line.
—Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2021
There was no obvious way to commodify Paik’s art.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2023
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Scientists are also trying to exploit the fungus’s sensitivity to temperature by building Bd-free habitats or moving frogs to locales where the fungus can’t survive.Martin J. Kernan, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2024
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Still, just last year, Chinese hackers exploited Microsoft security lapses to breach the email accounts of senior U.S. officials.Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2024
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However, the rise of adversarial AI has heightened the risk of data poisoning, where malicious threat actors manipulate data to mislead LLMs, potentially leading to flawed business decisions.Shane Buckley, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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Directed by Curtis Hanson, the original watches as Peyton infiltrates the lives of the Bartel family after experiencing personal and professional ruin, slowly gaining their trust while manipulating them from within.Matt Grobar, Deadline, 18 Nov. 2024
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That brings enormous power, and the ability to abuse that power.Daniel Eagan, IndieWire, 19 Nov. 2024
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That post in question found Harper outright denying Richards’ lawsuit claims that Diddy subjected them to abuse.Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 19 Nov. 2024
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The platform is being commercialized for various use cases, including threat intelligence and IT infrastructure security.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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Sign up Modern documentaries have also become much more commercialized, experts say.Justin Klawans, theweek, 7 Nov. 2024
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“Commodify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/commodify. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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