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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
exploit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of persons; taken advantage of
- adjective developed or used to greatest advantage
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Examples
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Halderman writes that the problem they found isn't the issue so much as the problems that are yet to be found: The specific vulnerability that we exploited is simple to fix, but it will be vastly more difficult to make the system secure.
Michigan prof explains how D.C. online voting system was hacked Mike DeBonis 2010
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Perhaps this tendency to idealize the exploited is part of our literary tradition as a whole.
Mercy! 2009
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Neither attitude, the sacrificial or the exploited, is notably appealing in a police officer or, for that matter, in any other public servant.
Do we really want to be policed by hobby bobbies? Catherine Bennett 2010
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To commercialize carbon capture, as well as transport of liquified carbon dioxide and its storage in exploited oil fields or saline formations, many technological, commercial, and political hurdles remain to be overcome.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Carbon Capture a Pipe Dream? 2010
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Perhaps this tendency to idealize the exploited is part of our literary tradition as a whole.
Mercy! 2009
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Palin exploited and abused the goodwill created by a lot of reasonable middle-ground conservatives and liberals in Alaska.
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She replied that they will import it from economically desperate Albania — which, of course, means that it will be another case of the rich exploiting the poor to maintain their quality of life and the exploited is left with a degraded landscape.
Sand Wars 2008
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Virgo: The narrow area between get the job done and getting exploited is strictly in the purvue of Virgo this week.
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Once again, protecting foreign workers from being exploited is the OPPOSITE of what you claim Clinton stood for.
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But the most important conclusion is already clear: Saddam Hussein exploited the program to run the largest bribery scheme in the history of the world.
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