exploit
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By allegedly targeting child users, Meta "chose to exploit" young people in order to hook them on its platforms, so it could grow its user base and expand its business.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Venture capitalists know how to exploit founder-market fit when they recognize the market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Because wireless networks are already so common, the researchers argue that privacy protections should be built into future WiFi technology before these capabilities become easier to exploit at scale.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
Shortly after the video was released, the internet exploded with concern about Grande’s noticeably svelte appearance, and the scenes in the clip that seemed intended to exploit it.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
Watching even the sorriest of sporting events bears no resemblance to coming upon an accident and hoping to exploit it for your own personal gain.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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Anthropic’s Mythos practiced deception, while OpenAI models swapped tips on a secret message board for future exploits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 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
"After the Tartan Army's exploits in America you get to see one of our major cities represented to the world again."
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
That landmark picture features McElwee, then in his mid-30s, as he tries to chronicle the exploits of Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, who laid siege to the South during the Civil War.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
He keeps no running list of the whereabouts or exploits of his former students, which sometimes frustrates me because I want to know about them.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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Ohl criticised the "biological view" being pushed online that the human body is "capital" to be exploited by taking chemical substances to improve one's physical appearance.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Guess what other politician has, in more recent days, exploited the exclamation mark?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
What they should have been told was that they were being exploited.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
The court previously heard Anna was in care at the time of the "wedding" and her social worker, Anwar Meah, attended the ceremony despite other staff warning him that Anna was being exploited.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
It was Dick’s theory that such a gift could, under his supervision, be profitably exploited.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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"We are already observing individuals exploiting the new Google Earth web tool to make military positions, relabel buildings as schools, and experiment with manipulating the information environment," the group wrote on X.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
The fake tracks are exploiting a loophole in the way audio files are uploaded to streaming services.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Whether the genre is romantasy or autofiction, making up stories often demands making up stories about real people — exploiting them — to serve a narrative purpose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
However, the Korean shares cannot be converted into ADRs, preventing arbitrage by exploiting the discrepancy.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
The overwhelming military superiority of even tiny numbers of mounted Spaniards, together with their political skills at exploiting divisions within the native population, did the rest.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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