exploit
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This strategy, which is also known as the “Halloween Indicator,” attempts to exploit the historical tendency for the stock market to produce the bulk of its long-term returns between Halloween and the subsequent May Day.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
The Securities and Exchange Commission has long warned about “affinity fraud,” in which scammers exploit trust within religious, ethnic or other close-knit communities.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
The “machine” wants to sell tickets and exploit his trauma in the process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
When an agentic model in an evaluation sandbox connects to an unauthorized server or executes an exploit, it hasn’t staged a coup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 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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They gathered to remember "a girl like no other" - a trailblazing rugby player whose exploits on the pitch were cruelly cut short by her death at just 33.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
He was fascinated by the camera operators who followed his Mudcats exploits and asked them to teach him how they worked.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
But it’s lonely up there for Garry, so for an alarming—sorry, I mean impressive—number of his exploits he enlists help from audience members.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Beyond his exploits in Sao Paulo's financial hub Faria Lima, high-flying Vorcaro invested in real estate, pharmaceuticals, textiles and even soccer.
From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026
Newspapers wrote about the Superfortress and its exploits with the kind of fawning adoration accorded movie stars like Cary Grant.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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The hack probably isn’t; ShinyHunters claims to have exploited a flaw in software made by Oracle.
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2026
Researchers have already shown that AI agents can autonomously exploit software vulnerabilities; in one experiment, a GPT-4 agent successfully exploited 73% of vulnerabilities without being given prior knowledge.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
The Kings’ latest legal drama follows a firm that takes on the cases of people exploited by big tech companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
In the 1960s and into the 1970s, he wanted immigration officials to keep out undocumented workers, believing they’d be exploited as strikebreakers for growers and erode his union’s bargaining power.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Kindness, as Nigro had said back in the Academy, was taken for weakness and exploited.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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As you can see, buying and holding over the past five- and 10-year periods has far outperformed three different ways of exploiting the historical tendency for market weakness between May Day and Halloween.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
During a hearing over that issue last month, prosecutors revealed jailhouse recordings in which Lavie bragged about exploiting Cloobeck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
U.S. security agencies accused six Chinese AI companies of systematically exploiting American models to train their own systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
"Europeans have had enough of tech companies exploiting our children, but we also expect more from our leaders than quick-fix bans on kids," said Leanda Barrington-Leach, executive director of 5Rights Foundation.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Men of consequence and means, who had made their fortunes exploiting laborers in their factories, drifted along next to those who had lost their lives toiling on those same factory machines.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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