Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Definitions

exploit

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




Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

“Will there be ways to try and exploit that and try and get stuff done?”

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

The “machine” wants to sell tickets and exploit his trauma in the process.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Researchers have already shown that AI agents can autonomously exploit software vulnerabilities; in one experiment, a GPT-4 agent successfully exploited 73% of vulnerabilities without being given prior knowledge.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

The researchers had access to a special version of Claude Opus 4.8, made available to qualified cybersecurity practitioners, and they asked it to write code that would exploit this bug in a cyberattack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The sight of Bigwig—Bigwig of all rabbits—at the end of his tether, half unconscious, playing no part in this desperate exploit, lowered his courage still more.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

He was fascinated by the camera operators who followed his Mudcats exploits and asked them to teach him how they worked.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

In short, coordination is lawful when it creates value rather than excludes rivals or exploits consumers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Beyond his exploits in Sao Paulo's financial hub Faria Lima, high-flying Vorcaro invested in real estate, pharmaceuticals, textiles and even soccer.

From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026

Tapping Travis Scott to play the Bard singing the tales of Odysseus’ exploits, for example, doesn’t merely reframe the role of ancient storytellers and poets as that age’s rappers.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

Someone who exploits the resources for gain only in the present, leaving them ruined for future use, would not be considered a steward.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Thieves have exploited antiquated magnetic stripes on benefits cards to steal hundreds of millions of public dollars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

His earlier work showed that the products of fructose metabolism can be exploited by cancer cells to promote their growth.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

It just means that the relationship between Fed rate decisions and the stock market is far more complex than can be exploited by a mechanical market-timing model.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

It adds streamers should not have their work commercially exploited to develop AI without consent or compensation.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

They exploited understandable discrepancies between the bulletins and the individual in the courtroom—was there proof that this Benjamin Jones was the Benjamin Jones in question?

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

During a hearing over that issue last month, prosecutors revealed jailhouse recordings in which Lavie bragged about exploiting Cloobeck.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

"There are individuals exploiting the lack of coordination between stores, between police forces and making vast sums of money," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

U.S. security agencies on Tuesday accused six Chinese artificial intelligence companies of systematically exploiting American AI models to train their own systems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

"It will also be a tool to break the business model of cynical migrant smugglers that are exploiting vulnerable people who risk their lives on perilous journeys to Europe," they said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

Where population densities are high, as in regions occupied by states or chiefdoms, the defeated still have nowhere to flee, but the victors now have two options for exploiting them while leaving them alive.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




Vocabulary lists containing exploit


Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Just like flashcards, but way more fun

Don't take our word for it. Leave the boring studying behind and join VocabTrainer today. You'll learn even faster and never look back.

Take me to Vocabulary.com