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access

[ak-ses] / ˈæk sɛs /


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Health authorities continue to face shortages of resources, while insecurity caused by armed groups in Ituri province, the area hardest hit by the epidemic, restricts access to some communities.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Special access to mostly so-so but costly private equity, hedge and venture-capital funds has seen their returns lag what mom and pop investors could have made over the past decade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

A second version of that scheme, which ran from 2021 to 2023, restricted access to first-time buyers and applied regional-level price caps to the properties could be bought under the programme.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

People do this to simplify their retirement portfolio, so all their investments are in one place, and also to access a broader range of investments in an IRA.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

In the first days following the earthquake and tsunami, refugees had been without power and access to outside news coverage.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Meta has pushed back against these reports, saying it does not believe that Muse accesses emails unless a user has consented.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 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

If the system makes a match, it accesses the individual’s associated tax file and pulls the address listed during the most recent tax period.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2025

The route network accesses roughly 3.1 million acres of land managed by BLM in the western Mojave Desert, including parts of San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Riverside, Kern and Inyo counties.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2024

The cul-de-sac accesses a street on which traffic is passing.

From The Universe — or Nothing by Meyer Moldeven

A woman was told she had cancer by a hospital employee who accessed her record days before she was due to receive test results from her consultant.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

The Journal’s analysis relied on detailed Medicaid billing records that reporters accessed under a research agreement with the federal government.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

However, she added there was no evidence to suggest any of the information accessed by Parsons had been passed to a third party.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

The awards, worth 381.8 million ringgit for CelcomDigi and 203 million ringgit for Maxis, give both operators direct ownership of spectrum previously accessed through partners, he notes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

And so while Lenore huddled with other employees filing police reports and requesting interviews with hospital workers, Dell excused himself and accessed the school district website.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

He called on the government to explain how it intended to address persistent fuel shortages, frequent electricity blackouts, shortage of essential medicines in public hospitals and difficulties accessing foreign currency.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

What if it attaches conditions that force religious schools to choose between accessing public benefits and compromising their values?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Some companies have banned agents from accessing their platforms and behaving in this way.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

“At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data,” the company said in the post.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

I got so good at it that I made it through a few days without accessing once.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan


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