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exploit

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




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Last week federal Judge Daniel Traynor blocked a North Dakota law that sought to exploit 340B to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars from drug makers to hospitals and pharmacies.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Through the project, Palo Alto is among a small cohort of companies with access to the AI startup’s Mythos model, which can discover and exploit cybersecurity vulnerabilities.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

“Today’s no contest plea makes clear that those who exploit others for personal gain will face serious consequences.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

It is a vulnerability that the world has learned to exploit.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2026

Pottery helped those Japanese hunter-gatherers to exploit their environment’s rich food resources more than 10,000 years before intensive agriculture reached Japan.

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




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