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
The kitchen also accesses the large patio and the home’s level lot. — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2026 Under the pain of Clancy’s stun baton, Thomas accesses Tommy Maximoff’s speed powers, blurring into super-fast motion. — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 14 Oct. 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 In response, Chief Ryan Kinnan said there is an ongoing audit of who accesses the information. — Ashley Sharp, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for accesses
Noun
  • Both Broward and Palm Beach counties were soaked with several bouts of heavy rain starting Monday.
    — Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The researchers found these REM-like bouts averaged roughly 83 seconds across a selection of ten test spiders.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • The backstory The first Mandarin Oriental hotel—then called The Mandarin—opened its doors in Hong Kong in 1963 and has remained central to the hotel group’s core values, despite global expansion.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Red lacquered doors open to 6,000 square feet of stylish interiors, with eight bedrooms and six full bathrooms spread throughout.
    — Demetrius Simms for Robb Report, ARTnews.com, 6 Nov. 2026
Verb
  • In the deal announced earlier this month with Grain Management, SpaceX agreed to buy low-band, 800 MHz spectrum that penetrates windows and walls.
    — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2026
  • What matters is whether AI penetrates core operations and redesigns workflows (depth), and whether that transformation extends beyond superstar firms into the vast sectors that dominate employment and GDP (breadth).
    — Ming Lu, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Monday's attacks on a shelter and former school with bunker-busting bombs came as people were lined up for aid in Komyshuvakha, a village in the Zaporizhzhia region.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Russia ramped up its aerial attacks on towns and cities across the country over the summer, striking at all times of the day.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • Officials also closed barricades at site entrances to incoming traffic.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
  • All entrances and exits to the city remained sealed, with the operation focused in Deir Bahha and another part of the city called Al-Jalda, according to Hebron Mayor Yousef Zuhair Al-Jabari.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • But when Taylor Swift enters the conversation, that means there’s discourse about it too.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Smith enters the Buckeyes' home game against Oregon with 3-to-1 odds.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2026
Noun
  • Concrete cases would establish that equal treatment governs the full educational enterprise.
    — Ilya Shapiro, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026
  • Breach of trust carries a sentence of up to five years in prison, or up to 10 in serious cases.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 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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“Accesses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/accesses. Accessed 9 Nov. 2026.

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