How to Use captcha in a Sentence
captcha
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Google search was a nice touch, as was the school bus captcha.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Jan. 2023
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No longer will a captcha code be required after that step in the process broke down.
—Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021
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You will be prompted to enter a captcha in order for your vote to go through.
—Brenda Cain and Yadi Rodriguez - Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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Use a captcha, a program that protects websites against bots.
—Melissa Simone, STAT, 21 Nov. 2019
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The captcha may also make the page look more convincing to targets.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2024
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That's why web captcha command could be seen more online – it's being used as a bot blocker.
—CBS News, 30 Nov. 2021
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This is not normal behavior, and there’s no reason on earth why a captcha verification should ask you to do such a thing.
—Davey Winder, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
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His bit on the insanity of captcha will be remembered forever.
—Tom Philip, GQ, 11 May 2018
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Khedouri says the Privacy Access Token isn’t the end of the captcha—far from it.
—Wired, 13 Aug. 2022
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Agents work best with standardized checkouts instead of needing to dodge botblockers and captchas while filling out forms via screenscraping.
—Craig Dewitt, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
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People can receive Nano tokens simply by solving a captcha on a Web page, letting people with low-end computers take part.
—Chris Morris, Fortune, 13 May 2021
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However, the outlet noted that the site now displays a captcha, which is most likely an attempt to stop automated submissions.
—Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 3 Sep. 2021
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Billboard and many streaming platforms now use AI algorithms and captchas to detect abnormal play patterns.
—Kyle Eustice, VIBE.com, 30 Mar. 2026
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From pop-ups to full-scale CAPTCHA campaigns Fake captchas didn't stay in sketchy ad pop-ups for long.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2025
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If a woman named Mary Brown can’t solve a captcha, visual impairment is a statistically likely reason.
—Amanda Gefter, Quanta Magazine, 10 Apr. 2026
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The idea is to attach a cryptographic tag to a piece of content that verifies it was created by a human, as determined by its process of creation—a sort of captcha for digital files.
—Christopher Beam, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
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Sophisticated internet software known as bots race through ticket sellers’ online ordering forms and buy hundreds of tickets well before human eyes even reach a captcha.
—Rebecca Beitsch, Philly.com, 2 Feb. 2018
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The first step is to fill out a registration form (that appears simple and has a pretty intense captcha verification), for individuals as well as companies.
—Itika Sharma Punit, Quartz India, 12 June 2019
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Since their vision is not pixel-precise, using web interfaces—which are dynamic, designed for humans, and often include captchas and other anti-bot measures—confounds them.
—Tharin Pillay, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
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Fat Bear election integrity officials soon discovered thousands of fake email addresses linked to the bogus ballots, corrected the tally, and added a captcha to the site to fend off the spammers.
—WIRED, 18 Oct. 2022
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The internet is full of accounts of the difficulties of captchas for the visually impaired, so ChatGPT’s training data is full of them, too.
—Amanda Gefter, Quanta Magazine, 10 Apr. 2026
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The redirections lead to sites pushing fake tech support, fraudulent lottery wins, and push notification scams, the latter of which trick visitors into subscribing to push notifications by displaying fake captcha dialogs.
—Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2023
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By mimicking real user flows and eliminating the need for downloads or obviously malicious payloads, fake captchas became the stealthier, more successful strain, pushing the older tactic into extinction.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
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By tying ticket access to listening behavior rather than open on-sales or presale codes floating on secondary marketplaces, Spotify is testing whether platform data can succeed where CAPTCHAs and queue systems have struggled.
—Lauren Schuster, Sacbee.com, 6 July 2026
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