nonce

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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. Davey Winder, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
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Adjective
  • Vulnerable regions include those with infrequent but intense seismic activity and limited enforcement of building codes, increasing the risk of structural collapse and widespread casualties.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Both Barrett and Ingram spent some time carrying all-bench units, but those should be infrequent units so long as the Raptors are largely healthy.
    Eric Koreen, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • There are occasional reminders that the Mafia lingers.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • All the pieces seem to fit, producing a symphony of contact and occasional crescendo of slug.
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Unlike other renewable sources of energy, which are intermittent, osmotic power runs 24 hours per day, independent of the weather.
    Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Most areas along the western and northern lakeshore will see intermittent rain, though totals are lighter than the heaviest lake-effect bands farther north.
    Brandi D. Addison, Freep.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Books about global warming often seem wary of beauty, evoking it only as fleeting and inconstant.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • 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 29 Oct. 2025.

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