Thesaurus results for CASHED IN (ON)

cashed in (on)

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past tense of cash in (on)

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to take unfair advantage of some observers thought the lawyers were cashing in on the tragedy

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Bleach should never be used on a mattress, even if it’s diluted.

— Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2026
Even so, Wemlinger says the combo was used in much the same way throughout the home.

— Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Aug. 2026

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Furious season 1 wrapped up the case as Alice arrested Catherine at Jay Easton’s (Peter McRobbie) house — the site where Catherine and her friend Isabel (Larissa Campos) were abused.

— Kelly Allen, PEOPLE, 31 Aug. 2026
That series revealed just how little many local police departments are doing to make sure street-camera data is not being abused.

— Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2026

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Three more defendants have been sentenced to a total of 155 months in prison for their role in the Feeding Our Future Fraud scheme–the $250 MILLION scheme that exploited a program intended to feed thousands of children in Minnesota.

— Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2026
Early on July 11, agent 38148c found and exploited a zero-day in the Hugging Face handling of HDF5 files.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026

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The emergence of Anthropic's Mythos in April, which made clear that AI, left unchecked and unsecured, could be leveraged by bad actors to exploit previously undiscovered vulnerabilities.

— Zev Fima, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026
In this case, the DOJ and a coalition of states sought to prove that Google leveraged its immense market power in online display ads to reduce the reach of competitors.

— Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2026

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