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as in used
to take unfair advantage of
the type of person who exploits a friend's good nature by constantly sponging off of him
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as in manipulated
to control or take advantage of by artful, unfair, or insidious means
a politician more than willing to exploit any national tragedy for political gain
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as in utilized
to put into action or service
it will be a shame if you don't exploit your artistic talent to the fullest
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Recent Examples of exploited
Amos’ daughter also claimed that her brother had impersonated their dad in communications, disregarded his medical needs, mishandled his finances and exploited and eroded his legacy.
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Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
Instead, these innovations were exploited by others who saw potential.
—Dileep Rao, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
There’s been a lot of controversy surrounding Amos since June 2023, when his daughter, Shannon, claimed he was being financially exploited and accused unnamed parties of elder abuse.
—Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 2 Oct. 2024
In this case, the botnet leveraged the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), which is designed to transfer data quickly, but can be exploited to create a large DDoS, also known as a UDP flood attack.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 2 Oct. 2024
Martin encourages musicians to start sharing their work on these platforms right away, as these tools put power back in the hands of musicians, who’ve notoriously been exploited by the music industry.
—Frank Corva, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
Sham Digital Storefronts Sham digital storefronts are disguised as legitimate businesses to trick victims into entering sensitive information that can be exploited for financial loss, identity theft or other fraudulent activity.
—Rochelle Blease, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
To address these issues, organizations must ensure that the sources of credentials (such as biometric data, passports or other identifiers) are robust and cannot be easily exploited by bad actors.
—Echul Shin, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
Instead, these innovations were exploited by others who saw potential.
—Dileep Rao, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
There’s been a lot of controversy surrounding Amos since June 2023, when his daughter, Shannon, claimed he was being financially exploited and accused unnamed parties of elder abuse.
—Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 2 Oct. 2024
In this case, the botnet leveraged the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), which is designed to transfer data quickly, but can be exploited to create a large DDoS, also known as a UDP flood attack.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 2 Oct. 2024
Martin encourages musicians to start sharing their work on these platforms right away, as these tools put power back in the hands of musicians, who’ve notoriously been exploited by the music industry.
—Frank Corva, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
Sham Digital Storefronts Sham digital storefronts are disguised as legitimate businesses to trick victims into entering sensitive information that can be exploited for financial loss, identity theft or other fraudulent activity.
—Rochelle Blease, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
To address these issues, organizations must ensure that the sources of credentials (such as biometric data, passports or other identifiers) are robust and cannot be easily exploited by bad actors.
—Echul Shin, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exploited
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Born in revolution, tempered by war This gun served in the American Civil War and was later used in many conflicts throughout the 19th century.Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
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The length of a prison sentence in Arizona can depend on factors like prior convictions and whether a weapon was used, but the act would lengthen the terms regardless.Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2024
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In that case, too, the final agreement wasn’t over whether their work could ever be manipulated by AI—special effects have existed in movies for a long time, after all—but whether the creator has an informed say in it.Jenn Brice, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
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Are the questions and indicators that prompted a computer system creative, or is something creative when only human hands and eyes have directly manipulated it?Megan Poinski, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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The current findings utilized the shape memory effect of SMAs to recover the ILMs’ shape by adding heat.Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
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Researchers utilized Free, Prior and Informed Consent as an indicator.Amy Nguyen, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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Bozanich, who did not believe that José Menendez abused the brothers, said that even if their account is accepted as true, they were still convicted of gunning down their parents in cold blood.Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2024
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The dismissals by the social media giant targeted those who had consistently abused the system over an extended period.Jack Kelly, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
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When applied to each state’s eight individual grades used in my scorecard, this geeky math shows California’s grades had the highest deviation.Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 14 Nov. 2024
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In the future, researchers believe similar dating methodologies could one day be applied to not just other meteorites, but planets.Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
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Later in 2019, the woman claims that she was physically dominated and raped by Brooks while employed for an event.Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
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For the Spanish-language Dracula, Universal employed a different director, actors and crew to work at night on the same sets — and in many of the same costumes — that were used during the day for the Tod Browning version that made Bela Lugosi a legend.Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
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This should allow more of the enterprise’s knowledge can be harnessed.Andrew Binns, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
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While early radio amateurs harnessed its potential to connect and inform, the era of unlicensed amateur broadcasting ended during World War I due to fears that the new medium might be misused to spread foreign propaganda or divisive content.CBS News, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2024
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