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as in cracker
a person who illegally gains access to a computer system and sometimes tampers with its information
the company's security experts spent days trying to figure out how a hacker could have gotten past the firewall
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as in amateur
a person who lacks experience and competence in an art or science
weekend golf hackers who are there mainly for the social networking
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Recent Examples of hacker
That includes hackers lurking on public Wi-Fi, your internet service provider, or even an overreaching advertiser trying to build a profile on you.
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Ken Colburn, AZCentral.com, 3 Nov. 2025
Ransomware infections usually come from malicious hackers.
—PC Magazine, 3 Nov. 2025
This breakage can create new vectors and opportunities for hackers, who are already regrouping for more high-profile attacks, to exploit.
—Daniel Kendzior, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2025
Prompt injections are commands that can derail bots from their normal processes, sometimes allowing hackers to trick them into sharing sensitive user information with them or performing tasks that a user may not want the bots to perform.
—Kevin Collier, NBC news, 31 Oct. 2025
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Ken Colburn, AZCentral.com, 3 Nov. 2025
Ransomware infections usually come from malicious hackers.
—PC Magazine, 3 Nov. 2025
This breakage can create new vectors and opportunities for hackers, who are already regrouping for more high-profile attacks, to exploit.
—Daniel Kendzior, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2025
Prompt injections are commands that can derail bots from their normal processes, sometimes allowing hackers to trick them into sharing sensitive user information with them or performing tasks that a user may not want the bots to perform.
—Kevin Collier, NBC news, 31 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hacker
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hacker
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Notable amateurs elected to Congress include Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor-Greene.—
Jeff Harden,
The Conversation,
3 Nov. 2025
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In addition to Affleck, Whitney Leavitt — also of Mormon Wives fame — as well as Alix Earle, Robert Irwin, Scott Hoying of Pentatonix, Lauren Jauregui of Fifth Harmony, Jordan Chiles, Hilaria Baldwin and Danielle Fishel were cast as the show’s latest flock of celebrity amateur dancers.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
27 Oct. 2025
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Now, Gong ventures into cyberpunk, a science fiction subgenre set in a dystopian future.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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There’s sour-sweet gummy worms (cyberpunk from Ken Liu and K.M Fajardo).—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Oct. 2025
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The driveway was already full of other cars arriving and various parents and kids taking photos like crazy and squealing.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
7 Nov. 2025
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They were married in 1968, with Miguel Bezos adopting her young son, and had two more kids, Christina and Mark.—
Vinod Sreeharsha,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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Suing public universities over athletic department records isn’t just the province of journalists and First Amendment geeks anymore.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
11 Nov. 2025
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This is Disneyland for a certain type of poetry geek.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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My Setup My setup cost around $500 and consisted of a basic beginner's tripod, a Canon EOS Rebel T3i and two Canon lenses.—
Harry Bennett,
Space.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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Cozyverse was written with omegaverse beginners in mind, giving readers an easy entry point to our favorite genre, while also crafting stories that would be fresh and exciting to long-time omegaverse fans.—
Emilia Emerson,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
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Why not try one of our new favorite styling hacks by wearing a pair of tall boots with culottes to play off the cropped hemline?—
Shelby Ying Hyde,
Glamour,
11 Nov. 2025
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New research from Anthropic, Oxford, and Stanford suggests that AI models with advanced reasoning capabilities, including OpenAI’s GPT, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and xAI’s Grok, may be more susceptible to hacks than previously thought.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
11 Nov. 2025
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For seasoned cooks and kitchen novices, cookbook author and nutritionist Robin Miller takes it back to the basics with great, family-friendly recipes worth making over and over again.—
Robin Miller,
AZCentral.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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Both veteran and novice skiers were on our trip, guided by the father-son team at Spor Guiding, and appeared to be having the times of their lives.—
Susan B. Barnes,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Hacker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hacker. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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