honeypot

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Recent Examples of honeypot Any event of this magnitude is a honeypot to bad actors, who know there will be plenty of users out there itching to tap or point and click at a solution for their missing fixes. Zak Doffman, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025 Partly because iMessage is a honeypot for spam, business notifications and OTPs and doesn’t have the natural cleanliness of other platforms—most of our WhatsApps (or similar) come from friends and family. Zak Doffman, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024 These shadow networks outside the gaze of corporate IT overlords have become a honeypot for sensitive data and proprietary information. Zak Doffman, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025 Traditional honeypots are invisible links that human visitors can't see but bots parsing HTML code might follow. Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for honeypot
Recent Examples of Synonyms for honeypot
Noun
  • Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar was expected to kick off a bonanza of investment deals for U.S. tech businesses.
    Iain Martin, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
  • Trump likes to complain that other countries rip Americans off, but the reality is that Canada’s inability to get its two largest exports to other markets has been a bonanza for American refiners and consumers.
    Ian Cooper, Sun Sentinel, 5 May 2025
Noun
  • The administration’s efforts to stop this gravy train threaten the climate house of cards built up for decades.
    Peter Murphy, Boston Herald, 14 May 2025
  • This just-okay kids’ film — the sort trying to capitalize on the Harry Potter gravy train way after the fact — is set in the 1950s as a boy, Lewis (Owen Vaccaro), is sent to live with his eccentric uncle Jonathan (Jack Black) after his parents’ tragic death.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In the void of official archives, a number of independent record-keepers have taken matters into their own hands, offering the public a cache of data and documentation to sift and search through without fear of sudden removal.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 23 May 2025
  • Of course, an open-door cabin made necessary a bear-proof cache for grub.
    Ted Updike, Outdoor Life, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • The arrival of summer beckons new possibilities, especially with your wardrobe and especially with your jewelry stash.
    Michelle Lee, People.com, 22 May 2025
  • If anything, how McVay treats his lead running back merely points to Corum and/or Hunter being great bench stashes if Williams gets hurt or loses his grasp on the lead role because of prolonged (multiple games) struggles.
    Jake Ciely, New York Times, 21 May 2025

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“Honeypot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/honeypot. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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