honeypot

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Recent Examples of honeypot Wide-mouth honeypots are perfect for dipping digits into each of the six colors. Pamela Brill, Parents, 2 Oct. 2025 But that’s on the honeypot routes, such as the exceptionally popular North Coast 500, the 21-year-old circular scenic road route beginning and ending at Inverness Castle. Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025 Any event of this magnitude is a honeypot to bad actors, who know there will be plenty of users out there itching to tap or point and click at a solution for their missing fixes. Zak Doffman, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025 The press release describes in more detail how the honeypot website worked. IEEE Spectrum, 27 June 2012 See All Example Sentences for honeypot
Recent Examples of Synonyms for honeypot
Noun
  • This is a bonanza for what has tragically become the city’s largest slumlord.
    Howard Husock, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Riojas’ outing continued his early-season strikeout bonanza.
    David Eckert, Austin American Statesman, 6 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • After years of relative prosperity in the original Big East, the breakup of that league in the five years before Benedict was hired left the university standing on the platform as the power-conference gravy train pulled away.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Both Games were near disasters for the Western media partners who make up much of the gravy train for the IOC.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Researchers have discovered an extraordinary underwater cache of shipwrecks across 328 feet of seafloor in northeastern Libya, illuminating a once-thriving ancient port.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Tommy Thompson, a deep-sea explorer who spent more than a decade in federal custody for refusing to disclose the location of a cache of gold coins from a historic shipwreck, was released from prison.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 12 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The co-owner of Izakaya Seki, a neighborhood Japanese restaurant tucked into Washington’s U Street corridor, had amassed a stash of minimal-intervention bottles that weren’t a fit for the dinner menu.
    Emily Saladino, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Remove all the green markers and color pencils from their stash.
    Amanda Rock, Parents, 16 Mar. 2026

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“Honeypot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/honeypot. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.

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