ripe for abuse
idiom
: in such bad condition that it could easily be used wrongly
a system that is ripe for abuse
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Others see a model ripe for abuse: The remote workers are paid $3 an hour, according to their management company, while the minimum wage in the city is $16.
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Stefanos Chen, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
Israel has detained hundreds, perhaps thousands, of civilians and combatants in Gaza and has held them without charge inside Israel in a secretive legal framework that rights groups say is ripe for abuse.
—Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2024
Implementing these regulations would make companies think twice before releasing unsecured AI systems that are ripe for abuse.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Jan. 2024
But experts say international women’s soccer creates environments that are particularly ripe for abuse.
—Molly Hensley-Clancy, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
Ironically, the modeling world’s feeder status to Hollywood creates a climate ripe for abuse.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 20 June 2023
That approach made Twitter ripe for abuse in its early days, and the platform developed a reputation as unsafe — particularly for high-profile women, who endured threats of rape and other sexist attacks.
—Washington Post, 9 May 2022
Absent federal regulation, the power to induce these informal placements was ripe for abuse.
—New York Times, 1 Dec. 2021
The proposal would also bar IRAs from making certain nonpublic investments, an area that congressional investigators have flagged as ripe for abuse.
—Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 25 Oct. 2021
Stefanos Chen, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
Israel has detained hundreds, perhaps thousands, of civilians and combatants in Gaza and has held them without charge inside Israel in a secretive legal framework that rights groups say is ripe for abuse.
—Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2024
Implementing these regulations would make companies think twice before releasing unsecured AI systems that are ripe for abuse.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Jan. 2024
But experts say international women’s soccer creates environments that are particularly ripe for abuse.
—Molly Hensley-Clancy, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
Ironically, the modeling world’s feeder status to Hollywood creates a climate ripe for abuse.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 20 June 2023
That approach made Twitter ripe for abuse in its early days, and the platform developed a reputation as unsafe — particularly for high-profile women, who endured threats of rape and other sexist attacks.
—Washington Post, 9 May 2022
Absent federal regulation, the power to induce these informal placements was ripe for abuse.
—New York Times, 1 Dec. 2021
The proposal would also bar IRAs from making certain nonpublic investments, an area that congressional investigators have flagged as ripe for abuse.
—Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 25 Oct. 2021
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