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 fallen Jedi’s theme is used again near the end of the film when Adam goes to confront his colleague Tom.

— Tanya Fedak, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026
Like the s’mores kits lovingly put together by the staff to be used on the electric firepit on the patio out back.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of used

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Or to feel that no one with the power to do something cares that you were abused.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 28 Sep. 2026
Leo was to meet with seven survivors later Sunday, including one who was abused as an adult, in recognition of the new frontier of the abuse crisis facing the church.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of abused

Verb

Milan prosecutors say that the workers were constantly exploited.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026
The last thing that Canada needs is a faction that can be exploited by foes — both foreign and domestic — in an attempt to break up Canada to better control its considerable wealth.

— Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of exploited

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Mac Haddow, with the American Kratom Association, said the FDA and states that have banned kratom are conflating the natural product with synthetic and chemically manipulated ones, which are associated with adverse effects and even deaths.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026
The FraudClassifier model distinguishes between payments initiated by authorized and unauthorized parties and explicitly recognizes situations in which an authorized party was manipulated or acted fraudulently.

— Shahen Minasyan, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026

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