Thesaurus results for PIMPED

pimped

verb

past tense of pimp

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to take unfair advantage of a movie actress who pimped everybody she ever met as she clawed her way to the top

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Recent Examples of pimped For five years, Ave and the other children trapped there — three of them aged six and under — were brutally pimped by their trafficker until a neighbor summoned the cops. — Natalia Paradies, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025

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The fraudsters used deepfakes to pose as the company’s chief financial officer on a video call.

— Muskaan Arshad, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
Metallurgical coal used for steelmaking was the last critical material to be given the designation in 2025.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026

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The act also has been sorely abused and used as a tool to stop projects, particularly housing.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
In 2023, the Illinois attorney general released a detailed report that identified 451 Catholic priests and religious brothers who the investigation found had abused at least 1,997 children across the state’s six Catholic dioceses.

— Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of abused

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This notorious commercial entity, a precursor of the global corporations of today and big enough to command its own army, ruthlessly exploited foreign resources, human and material.

— Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
That signal can be aggregated, correlated, and exploited by hostile foreign intelligence services to anticipate our movements, targets, and timing.

— Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of exploited

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But the things that tend to be more manageable are interiors, like a child's bedroom, but even those have so many details that have to be thought of and designed and built and manipulated.

— Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday the Pentagon has not manipulated the service.

— Jennifer Jacobs, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of manipulated

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The indictment alleges that Lucas, who was first elected to the Senate in 1991, leveraged her position as chairman of the powerful committee to protect her marijuana enterprise.

— Dan Mangan, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026
One of those companies, which leveraged real-time location data, was acquired by Twitter in 2013.

— Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 20 Oct. 2026

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