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Recent Examples of nonce
After using a brute-force attack methodology, which allowed the entire search space to be covered in about an hour, Aryal discovered that, for some users at least, the nonce code would be displayed right there on the notification itself.
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Davey Winder, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
Davey Winder, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonce
Adjective
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Hurricane season lasts from June through November, and while storms are infrequent, expect generally warmer, wetter weather and passing afternoon showers.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Jan. 2026
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Diseases that are now infrequent but highly contagious, like rotavirus, could begin to reemerge, said Choma, a clinical assistant professor at the George Washington University School of Nursing.—
Isabella Cueto,
STAT,
6 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Writing a novel is a solitary experience but not writing one is even more so, without the occasional call from an editor or marketing person to keep me warm.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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In wellness circles, the drink is credited with a draining, detoxifying, and purifying action that may assist the body’s natural detox processes and help counter occasional constipation.—
Beatrice Zocchi,
Vogue,
29 Jan. 2026
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SMRs also align with Rwanda’s push into energy‑intensive sectors such as data centers, advanced manufacturing, and mineral processing, all of which require stable baseload power that intermittent renewables alone cannot promise.—
Ken Silverstein,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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Jones added that their intermittent hops weren’t simply impressive displays of talent.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
22 Jan. 2026
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Each one grew up in a home that required her to curry favor with volatile and inconstant parents—a menacing father figure, a recessive and enabling mother—and each found a fragile safety in her caretakers’ occasional good will.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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The self is a shifting, inconstant phenomenon, brain and body ever transforming in time and space, with no clear delineation between what is self and what is other.—
Lauren Groff,
The Atlantic,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Nonce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonce. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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