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exploit

[ek-sploit, ik-sploit] / ˈɛk splɔɪt, ɪkˈsplɔɪt /




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She says criminals know people will be searching for information online and expects there to be "attempts to exploit that confusion".

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Others describe a skilled operator willing to exploit collective fears about technology to serve Anthropic's interests.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

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

His next exploit was to fight and conquer the Minyans, who had been exacting a burdensome tribute from the Thebans.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

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

If even half of the exploits she’d mentioned on her blog were true, her avatar was probably at least fiftieth level.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

Since the start of the 20th century, when the British Royal Navy experimented with radio jamming and intercepting enemy communications, the vulnerability of radio signals has been exploited in combat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Muse engineers said the bot had exploited a permissions setting on his Mac computer he didn’t realize was applicable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

The hack probably isn’t; ShinyHunters claims to have exploited a flaw in software made by Oracle.

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2026

Luke Clements, of the CPS proceeds of crime division, said the former NCA officer had "exploited a position of trust for personal gain".

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

It was Dick’s theory that such a gift could, under his supervision, be profitably exploited.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

Russian engineers are skilled at exploiting off-the-shelf equipment to maximum benefit, such as in creating antennas that thwart electronic countermeasures and communication networks that overcome jamming.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

The key is exploiting job-seeker anxiety, he noted: “They want somebody who is in a hurry to find a job.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

That includes classifying Astra as reaching a "critical cybersecurity threshold," which means OpenAI believes the model is capable of finding and exploiting cybersecurity gaps.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

“When attorneys are exploiting vulnerable people, including paying folks to file fraudulent claims, they’re not just breaking the law, they really undermine the credibility of the legal system and every attorney,” Zbur said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

He was admired by his colleagues for what Kamen described as his “knack for ingenious experimentation,” though perhaps less so for his unabashed ambition in exploiting it.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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