as in to use
to take unfair advantage of
some observers thought the lawyers were cashing in on the tragedy
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In an initial analysis that didn’t control for genetic factors, the researchers found a small association between women who used acetaminophen during pregnancy and the incidence of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.—
Dominique Mosbergen,
Time,
23 Sep. 2025 -
The Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, which recommends using acetaminophen to treat fever and pain in pregnant women, says that untreated fever can cause grave harms such as miscarriage, birth defects or premature birth, especially early in a pregnancy.—
Jon Hamilton,
NPR,
23 Sep. 2025
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There were ugly scenes at the Bethpage golf course throughout yesterday’s second day of play as European players, McIlroy in particular, were routinely heckled and abused by rowdy fans, including while standing over shots.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
28 Sep. 2025
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The lawsuit further alleges that the airlines manipulated and abused the arrival rate system at DCA airport to force more arrivals per hour, despite knowing that doing so would reduce safety margins.—
Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
26 Sep. 2025
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State-of-the-art dilution refrigerators exploit mixtures of helium-3 and helium-4 to cool qubits down to millikelvin temperatures where fragile quantum states can persist.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Sep. 2025
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That each and every one of us has a role to play in standing up against authoritarian powers that want to exploit our differences for their own gain.—
Hayes Madsen,
Rolling Stone,
24 Sep. 2025
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The prospect, then, that a robot could leverage a battery that offers six times as much energy capacity is one that could propel the industry forward in terms of return on investment for robotics solutions.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
24 Sep. 2025
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Gamow leveraged this fact to make three great, generic predictions about the young Universe.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
23 Sep. 2025
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The twilight of empire was also a time of conspiracy theories about international Jewish cabals, said to manipulate power through money and shadowy networks in order to rule the world.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Wood said that the Google is manipulating the market in a way that is antithetical to free market competition.—
Michael Liedtke,
Fortune,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Cash in (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cash%20in%20%28on%29. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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