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In the video game Minecraft, a portal built from which material gives players access to the Nether?

access

[ak-ses] / ˈæk sɛs /


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OpenAI similarly restricted access to its Dots AI agent to the $100-a-month subscription tier and up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

Six countries—Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine—border its shores, giving it access to vital international trade routes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

Keeping the collections in storage does not always mean there is no access to the work.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

She believes there are lots of people who want to do similar work, and they should be given access to land and affordable housing to do so.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

Manning, who was in charge of Walter Cronkite’s nightly broadcast, was offered access to Daniel Ellsberg.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

However, if students accesses AI on their own device while logged into their school-district account, that activity can be tracked, said Douglas Le, interim chief information officer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Harvey said it accesses closed models through APIs provided by model providers and authorized cloud providers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

So, if you wanted to exclude Netflix, you’d have to know all the domains it accesses to get it to work properly, which isn’t always practical.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026

"Trimingham beach is a really remote location and there aren't any nearby beach accesses so they were put there to move things around like concrete, steel sheet piles and timber."

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2024

I find it difficult to put my thoughts together, and have sudden accesses of violent trembling.

From Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories by Joseph Lewis French

Chips may be smuggled into the country, or accessed through a loophole that allows Chinese firms to rent out computing power at data centres stuffed with Nvidia chips in a third nation, often Southeast Asian.

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

The court adviser said such cases should focus on whether a chatbot accessed articles unlawfully—such as by getting around a paywall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Material posted on many online platforms and social media sites could still be accessed without an account, Reddit said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

The Department of Peace said it accessed the DHS agent profiles through a single sign-on service called Okta.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Treebaun changed the screen to a diagram of Ford’s Theatre and did a quick overview of all the ways the top balcony could have been accessed before turning on my repercussion track.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

More than 60 million Americans are between the ages of 50 and 64, and this population faces significant challenges accessing affordable, comprehensive health insurance, Baldwin said in a statement.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

The airline said Wednesday that it will prevent personal artificial-intelligence assistants from accessing its systems to book tickets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

In September NHS officials announced a crackdown on staff inappropriately accessing patient medical records.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

"Social media is an important means of accessing news and engaging in political communication for young Australians, including children under 16," the advocacy group argued in written submissions.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

I turn around and do some serious accessing.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan


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