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access

[ak-ses] / ˈæk sɛs /


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Bernstein analysts led by Douglas Harned said in a Monday note that SpaceX could spend more than $100 billion over a six-to-eight-year period on spectrum and cell-tower access.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

Crop pickers were paid less than the federal minimum wage, had no access to toilets, no way to wash their hands, no mandated breaks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

It’s also an acknowledgment that Meta didn’t want to have to rely on other companies for access to its ecosystem.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

This fast access to cash — sometimes available in one day — can also fill a void.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Even if the key card did work, it might not have access to every floor, or that inner lab where Dr. Achebe and Dr. Carroll had taken samples from him.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

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

Doing so accesses the car’s maximum torque of over 1,000 Newton-meters—793 lb-ft.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 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

Some of my favorite gags just sparked to life for an instant, like an all-knowing supercomputer who is a bit put out that Elio accesses its wisdom simply to learn how to fight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025

It is fair, however, to say that these accesses of morality or moralising are not very frequent.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

The CFAA, for instance, has a provision for “reckless damage”—but it still requires a human to have intentionally accessed a computer without permission in the first place.

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026

The hackers accessed the AI models using a $200-per-month license from AI-coding service Cursor, Cowie said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

On Thursday, the platform's Instagram page could not be accessed.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

OpenAI, the maker of the popular chatbot ChatGPT, said that it has no indication that source code, model weights or customer data were inappropriately accessed or taken in the incident.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 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

In March, Meta announced it would remove its Horizon Worlds social platform from VR headsets entirely, focusing instead on people accessing its virtual worlds through their smartphones.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

The suit contends that Anthropic was put on notice that it was improperly accessing copyrighted material, but continued with the practice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

Wang was told she was fired for repeatedly accessing an executive’s email, she said in a statement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

A cyber-attack stole information belonging to thousands of children by accessing an account that used the password "Password1", a data watchdog has said.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 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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