HONEYPOT Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

honeypot

noun

Definition of honeypot

as in bonanza

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Recent Examples of honeypot For a time in the nineties, Amsterdam was an attractive base; in the two-thousands, it was superseded by the Costa del Sol, in Spain; in the twenty-tens, Dubai became the honeypot. — Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2026 Portable credentials restore individual agency, shrink data honeypots, accelerate legitimate transactions, and reduce the very frictions and liabilities that regulators and courts have struggled to manage. — Raj Ananthanpillai, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2026 And, unlike Western intelligence services, which Shedd said are constrained by legal standards and ethical considerations, China and Russia are also willing to deploy honeypots. — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026 Trump’s whole-milk policy is a decoy not unlike the honeypot in Peele’s movie—culturally legible to those primed to hear it. — Paige Oamek, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for honeypot

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Noun

For independent oil refiners, the stars have aligned into a once-in-a-generation bonanza.

— Harvey Stober, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026
That’s all the possession time the Bills needed for an offensive bonanza that began with Moore’s first reception as a Buffalo Bill and produced a pair of touchdowns, the second a breathtaking strike up the right sideline to Moore.

— Tim Graham, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of bonanza

Noun

In both cases, the assumption is the same—that theatergoers aren’t there for traditional superhero derring-do, only a cavalcade of Easter eggs and teases for upcoming installments to keep the Marvel gravy train running at full steam.

— David Sims, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
At first, investors were throwing themselves at any opportunity to hop on the gravy train with the hope of cashing in big.

— Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 25 June 2026

Definition of gravy train

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Levi later gained access to a cache of Qatari documents from roughly the same period, which Syrian hackers had taken from the offices of the Sheikh, among others.

— Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
This can include everything from capturing cost-per-call and cache hit rates to turn counts and context size.

— Dylan Barrell, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of cache

Noun

Officers found a pill press and a variety of other materials used to manufacture fentanyl pills in Willis' stash house basement.

— Karma Sabbah, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
Williams wasn’t targeted against Seattle and played only 12 offensive snaps, so this is strictly an upside stash.

— Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of stash

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