How to Use exploit in a Sentence
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Think of it as a zero-day exploit.
—Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 16 Apr. 2026
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Building an exploit takes more time on top of that.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
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And this one might have been the best of all of his high-flying exploits.
—Matt Velazquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2018
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This is the third zero-day exploit that Google has had to patch this year.
—Jacob Siegal, BGR, 15 Apr. 2022
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Klaebo’s exploits indeed felt like some tall tale.
—Sean Gregory, Time, 9 June 2026
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The power and ease of use of the Pantsdown exploit are by no means new.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 26 May 2022
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The attacker posted a tweet that warned users about a fake exploit.
—Emma Roth, The Verge, 19 Jan. 2024
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No one's losing sleep over our commercial exploits at this stage in the game.
—Rodney Carmichael, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
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That’s a guilty pleasure, to follow the exploits of the rich and famous.
—Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 4 June 2018
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Moyes has credit in the bank after his exploits last season and two years left to run on his deal.
—Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
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The pair appears ready to repeat their exploits from last season.
—Mike Kaye updated August 26, Charlotte Observer, 26 Aug. 2025
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This is likely to make exploits faster, cheaper and more frequent.
—Philip Martin, Fortune, 29 May 2026
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But her overnight exploits were about to become the stuff that scientists’ dreams are made of.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2025
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Still, autofill exploits by hackers have been known to happen.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Nov. 2025
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For some younger people these days, the talk of Jackson's exploits may seem a bit overblown.
—Pete Grathoff, kansascity, 27 Feb. 2018
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The first security exploits show what could go wrong.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2026
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Buck had to hear about his dad's exploits—his legend—from others, but a hint was as basic as his name.
—CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
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Anyone with the exploit can get full acces s to an unpatched machine.
—Frank Bajak, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2021
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This was a time when ideas were firmly on the explore side of the explore/exploit divide.
—Samuel Arbesman, Wired, 26 Jan. 2021
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He was honored by the Greek government some years ago for his wartime exploits.
—Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2018
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Anyone with the exploit can get full access to an unpatched machine.
—NBC News, 10 Dec. 2021
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Wouters also noted that this type of exploit isn't unique to Tesla.
—Roberto Baldwin, Car and Driver, 23 Nov. 2020
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Mango has not yet confirmed the cause for the apparent exploit.
—Taylor Locke, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2022
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No secondary exploit is needed.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 3 Apr. 2026
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The Moores’ exploits aren’t unknown in Texas, and even beyond.
—Brian Womack, Dallas Morning News, 9 Jan. 2026
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Hunter Biden's past exploits are ripe for a tabloid-loving president.
—Joseph Simonson, Washington Examiner, 4 Mar. 2020
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News of her uncommon exploits splashed across newspapers around the world.
—Kate Siber, Outside Online, 24 July 2019
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His football exploits were legendary.
—Chad Graff, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
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Nichols' exploits landed her on front pages of newspapers at the time, but not much is mentioned about her these days.
—Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 20 Aug. 2019
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People swapped tales of their dogs’ exploits, and shared info on favorite food, parks and other places to take dogs.
—Denis Cuff, The Mercury News, 15 June 2017
- She said the tragedy had been exploited by the media.
- Top athletes are able to exploit their opponents' weaknesses.
- He has never fully exploited his talents.
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Some say the laws have loopholes that are easy to exploit.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 30 May 2026
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Teams clearly schemed to exploit him in the pick-and-roll.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
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Over the course of the year, teams find ways to exploit you on both ends of the court.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2022
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Can split out wide or match up against linebackers to exploit wheel routes.
—oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2020
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They can be stolen, reused and exploited.
—Art Gilliland, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
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Culture cannot be a space for those who exploit it to spread hatred.
—Shirley Halperin, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2026
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People who seek to exploit children can no longer do so with one click.
—Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2022
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Adults and managers exploit more.
—Big Think, 20 Oct. 2025
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And with these new technologies comes more ways to exploit it.
—Brittney McNamara, Teen Vogue, 11 Dec. 2017
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These problems are caused by the drive of the bosses to exploit us more and more.
—baltimoresun.com, 5 Oct. 2020
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But on the street, there is no safe way to exploit the lofty limits of this chassis.
—K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 7 Feb. 2023
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The land is as much a vivid character as the people who exploit it.
—Lauren Leblanc, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
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Now, members of the far right are coming in to try to exploit the tension.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
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These people didn’t see me as a young woman who had been exploited.
—Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2026
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The bad news is that it’s already being exploited in the wild.
—Michael Simon, PCWorld, 10 Jan. 2020
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The Sachems will look to exploit any weaknesses in this tough road test.
—Nate Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2018
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But the Spurs exploited them from the 3-point line on both ends of the floor.
—Hunter Patterson, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2026
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For now, good teams will find a way to exploit him defensively.
—Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 9 Nov. 2020
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Politicians on the right and the left have figured out how to exploit these new platforms.
—Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
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Yes, there will be matchups that can exploit him and potentially play him off the court.
—John Hollinger, New York Times, 24 June 2026
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Herbert will find holes in the secondary and exploit them quickly.
—Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 16 Nov. 2021
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But while this was a flaw Dunham was exploiting, some fans saw it as a virtue.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Apr. 2026
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But that coverage bust is on tape now, and other teams will try to exploit that look again.
—Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
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She was exploited by her own studio, Fox.
—Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 1 June 2026
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For the second time this season, a team found a way to exploit some of Fields’ flaws.
—Stephen Means, cleveland, 19 Dec. 2020
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How should new hardware be exploited?
—Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2025
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Don’t exploit or mistreat the refugee, the orphan, and the widow.
—Corinne Sullivan, Woman's Day, 4 Aug. 2022
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