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exploited

made use of for gain, often unfairly or at another's expense

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Six example sentences with exploited, each labelled with its topic.

  • Economists found the exploited farmhands earned a third of the legal wage while their employers reported record harvest profits.

    Economics

  • Reformers photographed exploited mill children working twelve-hour shifts for pennies, and the pictures helped push through new child labor laws.

    History

  • The bay's most exploited oyster beds now yield a tenth of their old harvest, dredged every season with no year of rest.

    Environment

  • The exploited glitch let players clip through a wall and skip the hardest boss, until a patch closed it.

    Gaming

  • The exploited loophole let traders book profits in a country with no tax on them, and regulators closed it in April.

    Finance

  • The exploited interns worked sixty-hour weeks unpaid, and the firm's own handbook called it a learning opportunity.

    Business

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