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a word or phrase that must be spoken by a person in order to pass a guard
the password for the all-night rave will be changed next week
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Recent Examples of password
The Future of Passwords For many users, entering passwords manually is already a thing of the past, with top-level password managers proving a supposedly safe way to store and enter passwords automatically.
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Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
Use your provider’s app or website to set up your network name and password.
—Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 4 July 2025
The maker of a phone app that is advertised as providing a stealthy means for monitoring all activities on an Android device spilled email addresses, plain-text passwords, and other sensitive data belonging to 62,000 users, a researcher discovered recently.
—ArsTechnica, 3 July 2025
Yet Qantas assured customers that credit card and passport details, as well as passwords, were not accessed.
—Cecilia Hult, Fortune, 2 July 2025
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Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
Use your provider’s app or website to set up your network name and password.
—Roxanne Downer, USA Today, 4 July 2025
The maker of a phone app that is advertised as providing a stealthy means for monitoring all activities on an Android device spilled email addresses, plain-text passwords, and other sensitive data belonging to 62,000 users, a researcher discovered recently.
—ArsTechnica, 3 July 2025
Yet Qantas assured customers that credit card and passport details, as well as passwords, were not accessed.
—Cecilia Hult, Fortune, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for password
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In this superb biography, Joanne Paul goes back to the words More wrote himself, to try and get at More before fame and the accusations against him took hold.—
Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
1 July 2025
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Friends and family flooded the comments with words of sympathy and cherished memories of Page.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
1 July 2025
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“Password.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/password. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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