HACKING Synonyms: 104 Similar and Opposite Words

hacking

verb

present participle of hack

as in manipulating

to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently I doubt that she can hack a job with so many responsibilities

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as in handling

to put up with (something painful or difficult) she's not sure she can hack that miserable job much longer

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Recent Examples of hacking This San Diego company is hacking those DNA directions in plants — genetically engineering crops to carry more favorable traits. —

Noelle Harff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2026 Some estimate that in one evening, 100,000 smart cards were destroyed, removing 98 percent of the hacking communities’ ability to steal their signal. —

ArsTechnica, 22 May 2026 Solutions might require Gordon’s goo-gun cannon to jam up gears, or Batgirl's hacking Batarang, for example. —

Gabriel Zamora, PC Magazine, 22 May 2026 Finally, after my sister had been hacking away for three minutes or so, one man stood, stared, anger evident on his face, and stomped away. —

Tom Levenson, Time, 20 May 2026 The company is also currently appealing a court order that bars it from hacking WhatsApp messages that stems from a lawsuit WhatsApp and its parent company, Meta, brought against NSO Group. —

Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 19 May 2026 Civil liberties groups and car hacking enthusiasts say the subpoenas are government overreach. —

Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 19 May 2026 And, paradoxically, the better AI gets, the less these companies can be disrupted because of how dangerous the potential hacking threats will become. —

Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 18 May 2026 This week marked the start of a new era in cyber risk with threats of artificial intelligence hacking — and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer fears that Washington isn’t ready. —

Lauren Morganbesser, semafor.com, 15 May 2026

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Unlike vision-only systems, Atlas relies heavily on proprioception—internal sensing of body position, load, balance, grip, and resistance—while manipulating objects.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 27 May 2026
The Zapatistas, considered the first informational guerrilla movement, used hacktivism, or manipulating computer systems or networks to promote a political ideology or social change.

— Paulo Nuno VicenteAll, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026