as in hacker
a person who illegally gains access to a computer system and sometimes tampers with its information
the bank had to overhaul its online banking system after a cyberpunk broke into the accounts of thousands of customers
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Recent Examples of cyberpunk
There’s sour-sweet gummy worms (cyberpunk from Ken Liu and K.M Fajardo).
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Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2025
The Best Alien Audio Drama Alien 3 (2019) Before Alien 3 was ever turned into one of the most controversial films in the entire series, its producers asked cyberpunk author William Gibson to write a draft of the script.
—Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
Perhaps best known for his work on television, Lee starred as Dr. Alex Park in ABC’s medical drama The Good Doctor and was a lead in the Netflix cyberpunk thriller Altered Carbon.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
Still, amid the cyberpunk dystopia, a Saturday night party extravaganza blossomed.
—Brian McCollum, Freep.com, 25 May 2025
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Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2025
The Best Alien Audio Drama Alien 3 (2019) Before Alien 3 was ever turned into one of the most controversial films in the entire series, its producers asked cyberpunk author William Gibson to write a draft of the script.
—Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
Perhaps best known for his work on television, Lee starred as Dr. Alex Park in ABC’s medical drama The Good Doctor and was a lead in the Netflix cyberpunk thriller Altered Carbon.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
Still, amid the cyberpunk dystopia, a Saturday night party extravaganza blossomed.
—Brian McCollum, Freep.com, 25 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cyberpunk
hacker
Noun
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Apple has released a major security update to fix a zero-day vulnerability, which is a security hole that hackers discover and exploit before the company has a chance to fix it.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
17 Feb. 2026
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Created by Eden, Moshe Zonder and Maor Kohn, written by Tony Saint and Simon Allen, and directed by Daniel Syrkin, the series stars Niv Sultan as a Mossad hacker-agent who infiltrates Tehran under a false identity, Shaun Toub, and Shila Ommi.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Feb. 2026
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“Cyberpunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cyberpunk. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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