accesses 1 of 2

plural of access

accesses

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of access

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of accesses
Noun
Latency becomes the new battleground The researchers say accesses that would normally leave a rack and travel through a conventional network could instead follow a more predictable path. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026 This discipline involves architecting the entire information ecosystem an AI agent accesses—codebase structure, team standards, documentation and institutional knowledge (the unwritten rules and patterns teams develop over time). — Kevin Cushnie, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026 Book through various companies, such as Light Me Up Beach Bonfires, which will set you up at any of the nearby public beach accesses. — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2026
Verb
Beyond the kitchen is the family room, which accesses the three-season porch. — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 6 Sep. 2026 Organizations must extend hygiene to AI systems by securing training data, confirming model integrity, safeguarding prompts and outputs, preventing model poisoning and adversarial attacks, and controlling how AI accesses company data. — Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026 SerpApi accesses public search results, not Reddit’s platform, and public information does not become protected because a platform wants to charge for it. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 31 July 2026 On Emotional Junglist, Nia simultaneously accesses a new, emboldened register, and pushes jungle music into fresh, vulnerable territory. — Will Pritchard, Pitchfork, 20 July 2026 Aura gathered information through its parental control app that accesses children's and parents' devices and through surveys with parents and children around the country. — Rhitu Chatterjee, NPR, 19 June 2026 Greg takes Tommy’s advice and finally accesses his inner Rooster. — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2026 In response, Chief Ryan Kinnan said there is an ongoing audit of who accesses the information. — Ashley Sharp, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026 Memory safety issues occur when software accesses or manipulates memory in an unintended way. — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for accesses
Noun
  • Additional bouts are expected there through Friday or even Saturday.
    — Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The King of the Mountain match was one of the unique bouts in the company as competitors fight to hang a title belt on a hook suspended above the cage.
    — Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Today’s mission is about smashing in crypt doors with a battering ram.
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Along with Global Citizen Festival, the three-day All Things Go NYC Festival was canceled just hours before doors were set to open on Friday afternoon due to the extreme weather conditions affecting the city.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Leather Honey penetrates deep to protect new leather and rejuvenate dry leather and old leather.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The latter, on the other hand, has a smaller molecular makeup that penetrates deeper into the skin and provides longer lasting moisture retention.
    — Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 21 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Zelenskyy said Ukrainian special forces struck the Kuibyshev oil refinery in Samara, southeast of Moscow, and another refinery in the neighboring Bashkortostan region in overnight attacks.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
  • In the days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, makeshift memorials started to appear around the perimeter of Ground Zero and at sites around the world associated with the United States.
    — Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Many of the rooms have private entrances and are dotted around a courtyard.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Sep. 2026
  • With seven windows, two main entrances on Via Montenapoleone and one in the courtyard, the store in the stately neoclassical building dating back to the late 17th century spans over three levels.
    — Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The best possibilities remain appealing after the excitement fades and the practical part finally enters the room.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Electric aircraft enters testing The eFlyer 2 pairs an electric propulsion system with a lightweight composite airframe.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Nonprofit leaders are reporting alarming burnout rates and more and more organizations are facing financial challenges that have spurred layoffs and, in some cases, closures.
    — Phil Buchanan, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Estimates are that there are upward of 9,000 cases; the country's health minister has announced that 1 in 60 adults are now living with HIV.
    — David Cox, NPR, 26 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Now, not in pots as houseplants but growing in the ground on prominent public display, there are more than 200 accessions representing 46 species.
    — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025

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