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exploit

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




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Havana also learned to exploit the Cuban diaspora as a source of hard currency.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

It may be nearly too much to handle, but Antosca is from New Orleans and says he found it easy to exploit the Southern Gothic sensibilities.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

One driver of the shift was Anthropic’s limited April release of Claude Mythos — with that model withheld from the general public because of its ability to autonomously find and exploit software vulnerabilities.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

It is unclear how many Instagram accounts were affected by the apparent exploit.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

They were thus in a position for several thousand years to exploit as potential crops the most useful available wild plants, whatever those should be.

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




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