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as in abuses
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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2
as in manipulates
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 uses
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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as in feats
an act of notable skill, strength, or cleverness
the fanciful exploits of the giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan
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as in things
something done by someone
once famed as an actor, John Wilkes Booth is now remembered for a single exploit, his assassination of Lincoln
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as in experiences
an exciting or noteworthy event that one experiences firsthand
a memoir recounting three decades of exploits as a roving foreign correspondent for TV news
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Recent Examples of exploits
David Redekop, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
This tactic exploits user trust in familiar sites, allowing attackers to silently breach systems of specific individuals or organizations.
—Alex Vakulov, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
The attack, which exploits the flaw CVE-2025-2783, caused Google to rush out an emergency patch for Chrome users on Windows.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
This type of misinformation laundering exploits a fundamental weakness in AI — its inability to distinguish between reliable and unreliable sources without substantial guardrails.
—Tor Constantino, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
Labor experts say that the working world excludes, underpays, overlooks and exploits around half of its available force – and as such, work systems - in their current structures - are failing women.
—Meera Senthilingam, CNN, 7 Mar. 2025
Director Milissa Carey has lots of talent to work with and exploits it mightily, assisted by Sarah Bylsma’s energetic choreography.
—David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2025
When China challenged American leadership, Putin provoked the Biden administration into suggesting that America, the defender of the liberal order, exploits that order in illiberal ways.
—Dominic Green, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Feb. 2025
Now, security researchers at Check Point have confirmed a new phishing campaign that exploits something known as the @ gap to drive victims toward Microsoft 365 credentials theft.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
Verb
Unlike hijacking, which alters resolution paths, cache poisoning exploits weaknesses in the DNS resolution process itself, enabling large-scale phishing, credential theft and malware distribution.
—David Redekop, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
This tactic exploits user trust in familiar sites, allowing attackers to silently breach systems of specific individuals or organizations.
—Alex Vakulov, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
The attack, which exploits the flaw CVE-2025-2783, caused Google to rush out an emergency patch for Chrome users on Windows.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
This type of misinformation laundering exploits a fundamental weakness in AI — its inability to distinguish between reliable and unreliable sources without substantial guardrails.
—Tor Constantino, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
Labor experts say that the working world excludes, underpays, overlooks and exploits around half of its available force – and as such, work systems - in their current structures - are failing women.
—Meera Senthilingam, CNN, 7 Mar. 2025
Director Milissa Carey has lots of talent to work with and exploits it mightily, assisted by Sarah Bylsma’s energetic choreography.
—David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2025
When China challenged American leadership, Putin provoked the Biden administration into suggesting that America, the defender of the liberal order, exploits that order in illiberal ways.
—Dominic Green, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Feb. 2025
Now, security researchers at Check Point have confirmed a new phishing campaign that exploits something known as the @ gap to drive victims toward Microsoft 365 credentials theft.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exploits
Verb
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Each clan of sperm whales uses its own set of clicking sounds to communicate.—
The Atlantic Science Desk,
The Atlantic,
28 Dec. 2024
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This piece of exercise equipment uses gravity and your body weight to create resistance.—
Nora Colomer,
Fox News,
28 Dec. 2024
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But at the brand’s newest Manhattan location, just east on 57th Street, there are more feats to behold.—
Sam Cochran,
Architectural Digest,
24 Jan. 2025
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Those feats, economists say, are even more impressive considering the nation was deep in the throes of a deadly, economy-scarring pandemic when Biden took office.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN,
19 Jan. 2025
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The challenge has always been to figure out how to personalize things without spending inordinate amounts of time and money mapping out every possible path a student might take.—
Ray Ravaglia,
Forbes,
28 Dec. 2024
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As a business owner, higher profit margins, all other things being equal, are more valuable.—
Bill Stone,
Forbes,
28 Dec. 2024
Verb
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That’s because Apple utilizes OpenAI’s industry-leading large language models.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
7 Jan. 2025
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For the protective coating, the research utilizes trifluoromethane (CHF3), a by-product of plastic manufacturing.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Jan. 2025
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For some government employees, levels of access to this information is determined by their job functions via a formal security clearance process and vetting actions.—
Rebecca Schneid,
TIME,
22 Mar. 2025
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The censure has prevented her from carrying out other legislative actions to serve her constituents.—
Ryan Morik,
Fox News,
22 Mar. 2025
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That especially applies when the team has a good young backup in Isaiah Likely.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
15 Mar. 2025
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In most everyday situations, this mismatch between the two theories doesn’t cause problems because general relativity applies to large objects (planets, stars, galaxies), and quantum theory applies to tiny particles (atoms, photons).—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Mar. 2025
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