unprivileged

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Recent Examples of unprivileged The pivotal addition to the the state Civil Code reads: Existing law provides that libel is a false and unprivileged written publication that injures the reputation and that slander is a false and unprivileged publication, orally uttered, that injures the reputation, as specified. Dominic Patten, Deadline, 20 Mar. 2025 The researchers demonstrate how an unprivileged remote attacker can then recover secrets stored in Gmail, Amazon, and Reddit when the target is authenticated. Ars Technica, 28 Jan. 2025 Most of the vulnerabilities outlined in this new Nvidia security advisory would appear to be in the user layer mode of the GPU display driver, and successful exploitation would allow an unprivileged attacker to cause what’s known as an out-of-bounds read leading to the impacts already mentioned. Davey Winder, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024 It’s folks who are unprivileged who will be forced to resort to unsafe methods of avoiding pregnancy or terminating pregnancy. Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 1 July 2022 The vulnerability lets an unprivileged user overwrite data that is supposed to be read-only, which can lead to additional privilege escalation. Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 3 May 2022 Judge David Carter of the District Court for the Central District of California ordered Eastman to begin reviewing at least 1,500 pages per business day starting on Friday, and immediately transfer any unprivileged documents to the committee. Grace Segers, The New Republic, 28 Jan. 2022 Who is really the fraud, the empty-headed playboy who gets by on connections and unearned income, or the unprivileged striver? Megan O’Grady, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2020 However, modern processors come with a power meter built-in and allow unprivileged users to read out its measurements from software. Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unprivileged
Adjective
  • Their last best hope is to parrot a false narrative that benefits are being cut for the truly needy.
    Stewart Whitson, Boston Herald, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Andrade has said that all the settlement money — resulting from overpayments by the state — should have been returned to Florida to help provide health care for needy residents and that diverting it to Hope Florida and then a political action committee looks to be a crime.
    Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Denying lawyers for the unemployed and evicted In some counties that have invested in public defender offices, indigent defense has been transformed.
    Ilana Panich-Linsman, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
  • In essence, the federal government has established a formula to assess the proportion of indigent patients served by a health system.
    Richard Menger MD MPA, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The pope also appealed to Catholics to get vaccinated, called on richer countries to share their vaccines with developing nations and offered the Vatican’s Pfizer shots to 1,800 homeless and underprivileged people in Rome.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The nonprofit provides underprivileged kids with a custom birthday cake free of charge.
    Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Infectious disease experts note that the vitamin is most useful in impoverished countries where children are significantly malnourished.
    Katherine Dillinger, CNN Money, 1 May 2025
  • Post-Civil War, however, the nation was tired, and large segments of the population—especially in the South—were impoverished.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Those from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds were less likely to be prepared.
    Malaka Gharib, NPR, 7 May 2025
  • Chicago Tribune Giovanni Guarino drove from Naples with his girlfriend to bid their final farewells to the Francis, moved by his work to help the young and disadvantaged.
    COLLEEN BARRY, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Lillian Feldman was born to impecunious Jewish emigres in Cincinnati on July 13, 1927, the twelfth of thirteen children who were encouraged by their mother to draw on the walls.
    News Desk, Artforum, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Among them is the sardonic confidant, St. Quentin; the down-at-the-heels military man, Major Brutt; and the impecunious, high-living chancer, Eddie.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
Adjective
  • Chicago Tribune 1924: After spending his final years living in the Hotel Warner at 33rd Street and Cottage Grove Avenue in Chicago, penniless and in rapidly declining health, architect Louis Sullivan died.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Eugene was penniless and in debt to his sister to the tune of $2,000.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Some of the 221 Nicaraguans were left completely destitute.
    CD Goette-Luciak, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The bank seizes the family’s assets, leaving them relatively destitute.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2025

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“Unprivileged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unprivileged. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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