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exploit

[ek-sploit, ik-sploit] / ˈɛk splɔɪt, ɪkˈsplɔɪt /




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One source close to PSG said they felt Rosenior's approach over the two legs of the tie was too open, allowing the French champions to exploit Chelsea in an 8-2 aggregate win.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

DIA indicated the Syria-based group “continues to face leadership and resource constraints and the extent to which the group will exploit the situation in Syria to reverse these trends this year remains unclear.”

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2026

They found the tool could locate dormant bugs lurking in decades-old code and easily exploit them.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

“It is unfair and unjust for the San Francisco District Attorney and the federal government to fearmonger and exploit this young man’s vulnerability simply due to the high-profile status of the people involved,” Ward said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Among the most popular collections of the type that Liszt’s example engendered were Johannes Brahms’s Hungarian Dances of 1869 and 1880, which exploit all the usual folksy dance forms of lassan, friska and csardas.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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