exploited

Example Sentences

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The women who formed the civil suits included freelance models and cocktail waitresses, many caring for younger siblings and kids of their own, and prosecutors say Rubin exploited that economic disparity.

From The Wall Street Journal

He added: "There are no winners today, just a sense of sadness that highlights the need for us as a society to grip this issue and finally stop our young people being exploited."

From BBC

The result was collapse: basic services failed, institutional knowledge vanished, and a vacuum emerged that extremist groups, including the Islamic State, exploited.

From The Wall Street Journal

It is a legitimate nation whose instability has been exploited by militias, smugglers and regional powers precisely because it lacks recognition.

From The Wall Street Journal

So our view of the evidence was that he caused it and that he exploited it and that it was foreseeable to him.

From Salon