EXPLOITS Synonyms: 138 Similar and Opposite Words

exploits 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of exploit

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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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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exploits

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noun

plural of exploit

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

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Russia exploits Ukraine’s air defense gaps Nationwide, the Russian attacks killed seven Ukrainian civilians and wounded 24, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, without providing details. — Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026 BlueMoon exploits two Chromium vulnerabilities and one in the kernel of Windows 10 (Oct 2018 Update), Windows Server 2019, Windows 10 2004, Windows Server 2022, and the initial release of Windows 11. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026 At each turn, a heartbreaking picture comes into sharper focus, underscoring Ricki’s destructive appetite that exploits Rita’s deepest needs and fears under the guise of friendship and no-judgement sisterhood. — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026 One method exploits the weaknesses of a game’s random number generator (RNG) to obtain specific Pokémon; it’s appropriately known as RNG manipulation. — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2026 In both the show and book, John recognizes Lucky’s talent for reading people at a young age, uses her own trust in him to his advantage in his schemes and exploits his daughter in order to exploit others. — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2026 Deed theft often exploits grief, financial distress, inheritance disputes and the limited resources of older homeowners. — Landon Dais, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026 Russian ballistic attacks have risen fast in recent weeks, hitting the capital Kyiv particularly hard, as Moscow exploits Ukraine’s near-zero stocks of Patriot interceptor missiles. — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 12 Aug. 2026 Experts from Socure, IBM, and Accenture highlight that AI fraud exploits employees, payment systems, and decision-makers. — Ray Fernandez, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

Noun

Now fresh from its Goodwood exploits, this one of just 10 right-hand-drive Dynamics and Lightweighting Study (DLS) Turbo restorations is being offered in an RM Sotheby’s Private Sale. — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2026 Clips of their exploits have been watched tens of millions of times. — Arthur Holland Michel, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026 Infrastructure changed every few months, and real exploits still took a long time to appear. — Srinivas Mukkamala, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026 The series follows the exploits of Luffy and his pirate crew in their search for the eponymous One Piece. — Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 22 Sep. 2026 This creates a window for threat actors to attempt to rapidly reverse engineer patches and develop exploits ahead of downstream stable releases. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026 Still, the overly detailed recounting of their high-society exploits becomes tedious and makes the book feel unnecessarily long. — Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2026 His exploits as a crack addict were legendary, his fall was well known and epic. — David Manheim, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2026 Otherwise, after decades of exclusion, Syria could return to the regional map merely as a fragile conduit for others’ commercial exploits. — Jesse Marks, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for exploits

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Detectives will continue investigating these cases aggressively, and anyone who abuses their position with a child will be held accountable.

— Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2026
New York City’s child welfare agency routinely abuses its emergency power to take children from their parents without a court order, creating lifelong consequences for families, a new class-action lawsuit seeking to end the practice alleged Thursday.

— Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 28 May 2026

Definition of abuses

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The series follows Mónica, a newly qualified lawyer who learns to defraud clients, manipulates her family to secure an inheritance, then betrays her mentor.

— Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026
In an interview with the Shade Room last year, Knight’s son, Shanga Hankerson, claimed McDowell pushed the singer into performing and manipulates her.

— Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of manipulates

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The concierge is very knowledgeable and can get guests access to things like dinner or event reservations during Sundance Film Festival, and similar feats that otherwise would be impossible—and take that from me as an ex-local.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Radar tracking has revealed China’s space plane performing similar feats with small objects in recent years.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of feats

Noun

After things go awry in the Congo, the family in The Poisonwood Bible dissolves readily.

— Sam Worley, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026
In some ways, things have changed considerably for Reid over the last year after the television adaptation of her 2019 novel, Heated Rivalry, became a cultural phenomena.

— Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of things

Noun

In addition to the restaurants above, special dining experiences are hosted on property several nights a week in the Resol Garden, an outdoor space beside the main restaurant Itzam with an open woodfire grill.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
Jessica Biel has found her next feature project in Playmates, the Searchlight flick inspired by filmmaker Lorraine Nicholson’s experiences growing up at the Playboy Mansion.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of experiences

Verb

Tennessee utilizes a single-drug lethal injection protocol centered on the barbiturate pentobarbital, according to the state’s Department of Corrections.

— Jim Turner, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2026
This led the Doshisha University team to introduce a novel, chemical-reductant-free, single-step pyrolytic method that utilizes agricultural bullrush waste as both a carbonaceous matrix and a gas-phase reduction template.

— Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026

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