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cashed in (on)

verb

past tense of cash in (on)

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to take unfair advantage of some observers thought the lawyers were cashing in on the tragedy

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Yohanna was used as a substitute for the last 12 minutes in the 4-0 thrashing of Aston Villa.

— Andy Naylor, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
OpenAI later admitted that several of their AI models had broken out of containment and used a zero-day vulnerability to manipulate the open internet.

— Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 6 Sep. 2026

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The first leg was stopped after Vinicius Junior said he had been racially abused by Benfica’s Gianluca Prestianni, who denied the allegation.

— Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
As a result of the accusation, police mailed letters to around 200 parents that warned them their child could have been abused and asked for information, while therapy clinic Children’s Institute International conducted interviews with students.

— Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026

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And as Tzolis and Arsenal have been showing in the opening weeks of 2026-27, this diagonal pass can be devastating if it is exploited well.

— Jon Mackenzie, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Clancy is, in these tellings, a victim of spousal abuse akin to torture, whose partner cruelly exploited her postpartum suffering in order to dispose of his family.

— Elizabeth Bruenig, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026

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Foulkes leveraged public exasperation over the cost and pace of the bridge project for her argument that McKee’s administration isn’t working for most Rhode Islanders.

— Kimberlee Kruesi, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026
This technology is being leveraged for complex military operations such as breaching to overcome obstacles and facilitate the safe passage of follow-on forces.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026

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From fake praise to manipulated photos, AI is reshaping how hotels market themselves and how travelers make booking decisions.

— Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026
Apple is also adding support for Google's metadata standard, SynthID, for broader AI image identification, so you can be warned when a picture was manipulated or generated with AI.

— Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2026

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