bad actor
Example Sentences
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Demand from other agencies to use Grok has been anemic, people familiar with the matter said, except in a few cases where people wanted to use it to mimic a bad actor for defensive testing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
If a bad actor -- or even an electromagnetic storm -- disrupted enough satellites, GPS-based navigation would fail.
From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2026
The other problem here, of course, is that your cousin’s estranged husband is, by your account, a bad actor.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 16, 2025
In fact, it’s not any one particular bad actor or corporate attack which fuels my spite, but the affront which underlies the whole: It’s the humiliation of it all.
From Salon • Feb. 20, 2024
He had looked strangely comical, like a bad actor auditioning for a solemn part in a play.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
