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 Anti-satellite measures—including jamming, hacking, dazzling, and spoofing—are now being explored at varying degrees of sophistication by more than a dozen countries including the US, China, Russia, India, Iran, and North Korea. —

Michael P. Dempsey, Forbes.com, 5 June 2026 All the readers are sneezing, sniffling, congested, feverish, or hacking up a lung. —

Blythe Roberson, New Yorker, 4 June 2026 But in the digital world, any information stored there could be accessed by others through hacking or malware. —

William Jones, USA Today, 3 June 2026 Although Mythos itself remains mostly under wraps, similarly powerful products are coming, including open-source Chinese models, which are less than 12 months behind the frontier and will soon bring comparable capabilities to anyone, including hacking groups. —

Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 2 June 2026 The executives who preached job-hopping and the career coaches who built careers around hacking your way to more money were describing a market that genuinely rewarded those behaviors at a specific moment in time. —

Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 June 2026 Earlier this month, Flipper revealed the Flipper One, a spiritual successor to its popular Flipper Zero DIY hacking tool. —

Justyn Newman, PC Magazine, 28 May 2026 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 The hacking community by and large lost not only their ability to watch TV, but the cards themselves were likely permanently destroyed. —

ArsTechnica, 22 May 2026

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The ever-expanding, replicating, and manipulating series of rooms take scraps and memories of those who pass through it, expanding into something that defies personality or ease.

— Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 2 June 2026
Uribe sued Cepeda for allegedly manipulating witnesses, but the Supreme Court cleared Cepeda of wrongdoing.

— Chad de Guzman, Time, 1 June 2026