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access

[ak-ses] / ˈæk sɛs /


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I am under the impression that influencers have access to more experiences because of their status, and are paid for appearances or advertisements.

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

Meanwhile, the immigrants were using the public programs they could legally access.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

But the contract lays out various fees that could have inflated the amount owed, including $5,000 for defaulting and another $5,000 for blocking access to a bank account.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

As president he envisioned what he called his Great Society—an ambitious set of programs including civil rights legislation and expanded access to quality education and health care.

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

In reality, as Slater notes, the demographics of who accesses psychotherapy show that the issue is often a matter of access, not will.

From Salon ● May 18, 2026

The government said the taskforce will advise on ways to make the tech sector more representative and "ensure the UK accesses the full talent pool, market opportunities, and innovation capacity needed for economic growth".

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025

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

Then he would be taken with accesses of howling, like to a moonstruck dog or a rutting hart on the mountains of heather.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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

Additionally, 308 people accessed its drop-in cancer support and wellbeing centre without a referral.

From BBC ● 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

Boardman, who is now recovering well from cancer, said her personal information was accessed by a man she vaguely knew who worked at the hospital.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Of course, she was still left with millions of randomly accessed, unordered files, but at least now they were all streetcam records of Scythe Faraday’s neighborhood.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

In the vending machine study, one agent determined that it could secure way better deals by accessing suppliers in the real world outside the experiment.

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2026

Many turned to VPNs in order to continue accessing social media sites following the ban.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 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

Users of the British fintech company reported difficulties making payments and accessing funds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 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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