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The phrase "are prone to exploitation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe individuals or groups that are vulnerable to being taken advantage of in various contexts, such as social, economic, or political situations.
Example: "Low-income workers are often prone to exploitation by employers who seek to maximize profits."
Alternatives: "are susceptible to exploitation" or "are vulnerable to exploitation.".
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The shared rewards generated by these surface and secreted molecules ensures that their producers are prone to exploitation by nonproducer "cheaters" that prosper at the expense of more cooperative individuals.
Mutualisms are prone to exploitation by low-quality symbionts that do not provide an adequate service to their host (e.g. King and Caylor 2010; Heil 2013), and this raises the question of whether plant can actively sense the presence of ants and monitor their activity and their identity (e.g. parasitic and mutualistic ants, cf. Heil 2009, 2013).
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Releasing urine always carries the risk of revealing unwanted information about the state of the signaller and hence is prone to exploitation.
Plus, workers are prone to what one economist calls self-exploitation-overextending themselves on multiple gigs without a guaranteed hourly rate so that they often end up making less than minimum wage for all their efforts.
People are prone to madness.
They are prone to bugs.
Americans are prone to excess.
Monocultures are prone to disease.
"All ideologies are prone to extremes.
They are prone to propaganda.
Schools are prone to scandal.
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