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Commodity in sentence

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Our housing has become a commodity, and I'll talk a little bit about that.
We can't afford to eat anything except beans; that is, our housing has become a commodity.
And it takes a little bit of nerve to dive into those primal, terrifying parts of ourselves and make our own decisions and not make our housing a commodity, but make it something that bubbles up from seminal sources.
It's a difficult and expensive commodity, until now.
You can't pick individual sheep, but you can buy a single plate block of stamps as a commodity.
It became entertainment; it became a new kind of commodity, something I was selling.
If we were to take the model here, the diagram of that particular garden, and sort of transpose it onto our federal agriculture policy, we'd get this: billions of billions of dollars going to support just a handful of commodity crops with just that tiny little bit at the top for fruits and vegetables.
They're interchangeable, fungible, a kind of household commodity.
We're very co-evolved, because we depend on bees for pollination and, even more recently, as an economic commodity.
Because of this, commodity buyers and sellers typically transact in small circles, in narrow networks of people they know and trust.
Now, the commodity exchange itself, that concept, is not new to the world.
That was, of course, the birth of the Chicago Board of Trade, which is the most famous commodity exchange in the world.
The Chicago Board of Trade was established then for precisely the same reasons that our farmers today would benefit from a commodity exchange.
China's Dalian Commodity Exchange, three years ago, 2004, overtook the Chicago Board of Trade to become the second largest commodity exchange in the world.
In the design of our commodity exchange in Ethiopia, we've done something rather unique, which is to take the approach of an integrated perspective, or what we call the ECX Edge.
Synthetic DNA is a commodity.
This thing I have in front of me actually used to be a commodity gaming controller called a Gametrak.
His parents think sometimes it's a precious commodity, so they'll keep it in a cupboard.
I was no more than just a commodity.
I was no longer just a commodity.
A marketplace has emerged where public humiliation is a commodity, and shame is an industry.
Because here's a typical graph of some commodity.
So, can we produce more of this coveted commodity?
From there, the plant spread further still, helping drive tea's rapid growth as an everyday commodity.
In an uncertain global environment, commodity prices have fallen.
Many of the economies are still commodity driven, and therefore their performance has slipped.
It's like a new commodity; it's a new utility.
The opportunity we're going to look to is a genuine basis for optimism about the bottom billion, and that is the commodity booms.
The commodity booms are pumping unprecedented amounts of money into many, though not all, of the countries of the bottom billion.
Partly, they're pumping money in because commodity prices are high, but it's not just that.
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