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• Experts have warned that the platform is ripe for abuse.
  — Washington Post, 4 June 2020
• The pervasive use of the app in mainland China has made the app ripe for abuse.
  — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2022
• This is ripe for abuse and people getting sick and trips to the emergency room.
  — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 24 Jan. 2023
• That set-up is ripe for abuse, criminal-justice advocates have long held.
  — Michael Williams, SFChronicle.com, 15 Dec. 2020
• However, some officials have expressed concern that the lenient rules could be ripe for abuse by those looking to cut in line.
  — Luke Money, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• The prospect of a cash reward in return for completely anonymous information seems ripe for abuse.
  — Tana Ganeva, The New Republic, 29 Oct. 2021
• Opponents of ShotSpotter also said the idea of planting always-on microphones throughout a city is ripe for abuse.
  — Lucas Daprile, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2022
• And people’s willingness to send sensitive data over WhatsApp leaves the platform ripe for abuse as a blackmail platform.
  — Albert Fox Cahn, Wired, 10 Dec. 2021
• In an era when many women were dependent on men for everything from money to social standing, the situation was ripe for abuse.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2021
• Civil liberties groups have said the process is ripe for abuse, though federal prosecutors frequently use it in drug and gambling cases.
  — John Caniglia, cleveland, 12 Mar. 2021
• Critics say these laws are vague, ripe for abuse, and go against the Indian Constitution, which guarantees the right to profess, practice, and propagate one’s religion.
  — Sarita Santoshini, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2022
• But once an entity gains the ability to track nearly anyone, the technology can also be used to control and monitor movement, powers ripe for abuse.
  — WIRED, 2 Feb. 2023
• Abbott said mail ballots -- a topic that drew widespread attention because of the coronavirus outbreak during last year’s election -- remain ripe for abuse.
  — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 2 Feb. 2021
• Miranda McClure said the state's legislative continuance privilege is ripe for abuse and should be reformed.
  — Sarah Rankin, Star Tribune, 22 Oct. 2020
• Horrified observers from the tech community pointed out the technology was also ripe for abuse by scammers.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 27 June 2022
• The company received internal and external feedback that the verification process for its Twitter Blue program could be ripe for abuse, according to one of the people, who asked not to be identified.
  — Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2022
• Absent federal regulation, the power to induce these informal placements was ripe for abuse.
  — New York Times, 1 Dec. 2021
• At the same time, employees said, Signal is developing multiple tools simultaneously that could be ripe for abuse.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 26 Jan. 2021
• Such searches can be legally permissible but are ripe for abuse, according to one prominent defense attorney.
  — Justin Fenton, baltimoresun.com, 12 Aug. 2020
• With massive government contracts signed on remarkably short timelines, critics say the government exposed itself to an environment ripe for abuse.
  — Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2021
• The proposal would also bar IRAs from making certain nonpublic investments, an area that congressional investigators have flagged as ripe for abuse.
  — Justin Elliott, ProPublica, 25 Oct. 2021
• Although appearing ripe for abuse, this 1970 addition to the constitution replaced a rule that often generated circuitous, complicated legal action over procedure and how action was recorded, according to Lousin.
  — John O'Connor, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2024