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
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
With the adoption of artificial intelligence promising—or threatening—to return ever greater rewards to a diminishing number of those best placed to exploit it, the trends will intensify.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 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
Jockeys could smell fear in one of their own and would exploit it mercilessly, trying to intimidate their way past a rival.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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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
Burnham's exploits online have already brought mockery and launched a thousand memes.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 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
In an early scene in “Othello” the title character recalls in lush language how his recounting of the daring and dangerous exploits he endured as a warrior transfixed and moved his new wife, Desdemona:
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
But Don, who spent part of every summer with Charlie, knew of Permian and of his dad’s exploits there.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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“Anticorruption efforts mustn’t be exploited, and the chaotic practice of ‘hyping up corruption’ must be curbed,” the official party newspaper of Sichuan province said in a commentary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
What they should have been told was that they were being exploited.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Siddiqi complained that he had also been "exploited".
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
In court documents, the state has cited the presence of rare earth minerals, including uranium, as well as untapped energy resources, as assets that could be exploited.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
Pizarro quickly appreciated those divisions and exploited them.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Sánchez has accused migrant traffickers of exploiting a decision recently made by the country's supreme court which constrained the government's right to immediately deport people who had arrived by sea.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Nonetheless, Claude used "basic techniques, such as exploiting weak passwords and unauthenticated endpoints," the blog continued.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 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
The mercenaries are now closely integrated into the country’s national army and local militias, exploiting smuggling routes and diverting trade flows to maintain control over key resources, including the Oubangui River.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 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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