honeypot

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Recent Examples of honeypot 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 Partly because iMessage is a honeypot for spam, business notifications and OTPs and doesn’t have the natural cleanliness of other platforms—most of our WhatsApps (or similar) come from friends and family. Zak Doffman, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024 These shadow networks outside the gaze of corporate IT overlords have become a honeypot for sensitive data and proprietary information. Zak Doffman, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025 Traditional honeypots are invisible links that human visitors can't see but bots parsing HTML code might follow. Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for honeypot
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Noun
  • That will be a scientific bonanza since full solar eclipses produce just a few minutes of totality when the moon lines up perfectly between Earth and the sun — on average just once every 18 months.
    Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2025
  • Cracking open the vaults to centuries-old tomes could be a data bonanza for tech companies battling lawsuits from living novelists, visual artists, and others whose creative works have been scooped up without their consent to train AI chatbots.
    Matt O'Brien, Christian Science Monitor, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • The administration’s efforts to stop this gravy train threaten the climate house of cards built up for decades.
    Peter Murphy, Boston Herald, 14 May 2025
  • This just-okay kids’ film — the sort trying to capitalize on the Harry Potter gravy train way after the fact — is set in the 1950s as a boy, Lewis (Owen Vaccaro), is sent to live with his eccentric uncle Jonathan (Jack Black) after his parents’ tragic death.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The fate of the enriched uranium On Capitol Hill on Thursday, after administration officials gave lawmakers a classified briefing on the strikes, Republican lawmakers acknowledged that the U.S. strikes may not have destroyed Iran’s cache of enriched uranium.
    Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 28 June 2025
  • Before the attacks, Boelter compiled a list of mostly Democratic state lawmakers and their addresses, disguised his SUV to look like a police squad car, and purchased a silicone mask and a cache of weapons, according to the affidavit.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • With a shot to get on the field early for the Titans, Dike is worth a stash in dynasty fantasy football.
    Steve Bradshaw, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
  • Contemporary sources suggested that cannon fire struck a stash of gunpowder aboard the San José, triggering a massive explosion that caused the ship to sink, but more recent research points to the galleon splitting open.
    Aurora Martínez, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2025

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“Honeypot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/honeypot. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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