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The business model itself is exploitive, Bhagrath said.—Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026 Or there was coercion that made exploitive use of legal procedures.—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 9 Mar. 2026 The viral post, first published Friday, has elicited strong denials from major delivery apps that have been the subjects of past scrutiny for exploitive worker policies.—Lauren Wilson, NBC news, 7 Jan. 2026 In contrast, There Will Be Blood (2007) starring Daniel Day-Lewis was an angry portrait of an exploitive developer based on Upton Sinclair’s classic 1926 novel Oil.—Peter Bart, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for exploitive