How to Use compromised in a Sentence

compromised

adjective
  • After all, the best gift is peace of mind (and a non-compromised bank account).
    Samantha Leal, Refinery29, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Neat or squalid, these apartments reflect the compromised lives these men have made for themselves.
    Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The compromised container was one of three large tanks at the site containing the chemical.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2026
  • One compromised password can unlock social media, banking and cloud accounts.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The electrical systems are extremely compromised and not working.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 6 Nov. 2025
  • How fake error malware attacks actually work These attacks begin with a compromised website.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Bad training data—which could mean anything from poor-quality images or images that are of something else—would affect how the teacher network is trained and result in compromised output.
    IEEE Spectrum, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The long-term damage that an unqualified, incompetent, compromised or immoral — but superpowered — mayor can inflict on the city is too great.
    Steven Falk, Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Whether from an unbalanced diet or environmental factors, your body can become compromised and more vulnerable to damage.
    Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Colonial Pipeline said its network had been accessed via a compromised password that was linked to a disused virtual private networking account used for remote access.
    Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Ask how the agent acting on your behalf is cryptographically identified as well as how quickly a compromised credential can be revoked without affecting the rest of the system.
    Teodor Calin, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Sensitive data on pricing, routing, customer identity, and cargo contents moves across systems, where a single compromised credential can have a far-reaching impact.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 2 May 2026
  • Video captured by an Israeli drone, appearing to show Hamas personnel faking the recovery of a deceased hostage, has put the terrorist group in a compromised position.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Greer speculates that Judith’s long life—dying at age 70—is a strong indicator that Anne may have experienced a compromised pregnancy with the twins.
    Nathan Smith, Time, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Tavello said that, because of the COVID pandemic, her life was dialysis and chemotherapy and nowhere else because her immune system was so compromised.
    Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2025
  • There is no closing agreement, no compromised assessment, no determination of liability through any of the channels the IRC provides.
    Andrew Leahey, Forbes.com, 29 May 2026
  • Often, ElAttrache said, an ultra-elite athlete will apply a different calculus when deciding whether to play with an injury such as a compromised ACL.
    Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Traditionally, zinc has been associated with repair, protection, and control, particularly in compromised or reactive skin states.
    Tatiana Dias, Vogue, 29 May 2026
  • The news organizations were able to verify the security hole and provided the agency, known by its Spanish initials, CRIM, with a detailed description of the issue that included the specific server and folders that contained the compromised data.
    Luis Valentín, ProPublica, 9 July 2026
  • Supply chain attacks are growing more sophisticated, vulnerability disclosures are accelerating, and as organizations integrate AI deeper into critical operations, the value of a single compromised credential will only increase.
    Santhosh Jayaprakash, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026

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