exploited

past tense of exploit

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Recent Examples of exploited Decades before the internet, Gunness exploited men’s loneliness — luring them to her hog farm with the promise of romance and sending many to a shallow grave beneath the Indiana soil. Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025 Anything a user does on Max—and everything Max can collect, such as geolocation data, contacts, photos, and audio—could presumably be accessed and exploited by the state. Justin Sherman, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2025 The fan culture must be protected, the loyalty not exploited. Andy Mitten, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025 When people are perhaps more vulnerable than any other moment and that vulnerability is, horrifically, exploited. Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025 Could Lightfighter – and the imitators likely to follow – even raise interest in track riding, in a world where modern sportbike performance long ago outpaced what could be exploited prudently on public roads? New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2025 In March, Google addressed CVE-2025-2783, a sandbox escape bug exploited in espionage attacks against Russian organizations. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2025 But the criminal syndicates and the armed groups hosting them have exploited four years of devastating civil war to expand their business. Helen Regan, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025 Like the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War, however, China has vulnerabilities that can be exploited. Seth G. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 26 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exploited
Verb
  • Schmidt warned that without enforcement, these rogue models could spread unchecked and be used for harm by bad actors.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • While initially designed to be used in a rocket artillery system, it was modified to be attached to a first-person-view drone using a wooden stick, wire and duct tape, CAR said.
    Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • There’s been no improvement in their real economy despite a stock market that seems manipulated higher, a la 2016.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Its quantum state can be precisely prepared, manipulated and measured by experimenters.
    Zhixin Wang, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • One tool employers currently use to fill seasonal or short-term nonagricultural positions is the H-2B visa, a temporary, non-immigrant program frequently utilized by the hospitality and tourism sectors when there are not enough American workers available.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Suarez also has sought to prevent people from living on sailboats, including by calling for the removal of a dock that boaters utilized to access food and water on land.
    Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • She had been abused as a child and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • For over a year, it was then used and abused for testing, much of it on Ferrari’s Fiorano track.
    Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • When heat is applied, this quantum system retains its high-energy, non-thermal state instead of evenly distributing energy.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Documents obtained by Fox News Digital stated that six female swimmers on the Roanoke College team applied for May Term Travel Courses run by the school three days before a press conference took place in which some expressed their displeasure with having a transgender swimmer on their team.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Over the course of the last few years, Wilson’s leveraged her idiosyncratic country and Western style as a foray into the fashion and accessories world.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Some recipients, such as Lech Wałęsa and Malala Yousafzai, have leveraged the prize to amplify their platforms, but structural challenges often hinder long-term progress.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • One tactic she’s employed is seeking out new partnerships.
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
  • One essential difference between the drawings and the paintings is the tool employed for mark making.
    Grace Edquist, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The lesson is clear – when technology is harnessed to address the root causes of road crashes, the results can be profound.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Both projects were unveiled at MipJunior without a full launch, signaling a growing comfort with real-time iteration and a broader bet that YouTube’s vast subscriber base can be harnessed as a tool.
    Ben Croll, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025

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