Example Sentences

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“The Blue Trail” doesn’t shoot her exploitatively, just affectionately.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

For them and other refugees, it had been a difficult journey north, disorderly and exploitatively priced.

From New York Times • May 4, 2023

After his exploitatively stage-managed burial by sea, his widow, Liu Xia, disappeared from public view.

From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2021

A member of Cosby’s PR team also read a scathing statement from the comedian’s wife, Camille, in which she called Steele “heinously and exploitatively ambitious” and the lawyers for Cosby’s accusers “unethical.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 17, 2017

Fifty years ago, there wasn't much you could do with Mighty Joe except display him exploitatively in a nightclub.

From Time Magazine Archive