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There has not been a gross over-usage of the word exploit in the past 10 years. See google trends, the word's usage is trending downward. Its peak was actually around 2005.

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Google trends tracks what people are searching not what they are using.

Nope, they have data since the 1800's. Don't think they had search engines back then.

That's Google Ngram Viewer. It's different from Trends, unless they have merged them recently.

Ah thanks, i didn't know that

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