exploitation

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"Legitimate businesses play a critical role in preventing money laundering. Supervised businesses need to stay alert to suspicious activity and put systems in place to protect themselves from exploitation," a spokesperson said.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

“The training is meant to prepare them to stay alive, avoid capture when possible, resist exploitation if captured, and improve their chances of recovery,” he said in an email exchange.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

“Continued exploitation and denial of their freedom is making them worse, and time is running out!”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

Back-to-back rulings this week found Meta liable for factors such as failing to protect children from exploitation and operating addictive platforms.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

These new layered sound effects, built on plainsong tunes, were edging very close to what today we would call ‘harmony’ - that is, the existence and exploitation of simultaneous clusters of notes.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall