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Recent Examples of unprivileged
The researchers demonstrate how an unprivileged remote attacker can then recover secrets stored in Gmail, Amazon, and Reddit when the target is authenticated.
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Ars Technica, 28 Jan. 2025
Most of the vulnerabilities outlined in this new Nvidia security advisory would appear to be in the user layer mode of the GPU display driver, and successful exploitation would allow an unprivileged attacker to cause what’s known as an out-of-bounds read leading to the impacts already mentioned.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
It’s folks who are unprivileged who will be forced to resort to unsafe methods of avoiding pregnancy or terminating pregnancy.
—Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 1 July 2022
The vulnerability lets an unprivileged user overwrite data that is supposed to be read-only, which can lead to additional privilege escalation.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 3 May 2022
Judge David Carter of the District Court for the Central District of California ordered Eastman to begin reviewing at least 1,500 pages per business day starting on Friday, and immediately transfer any unprivileged documents to the committee.
—Grace Segers, The New Republic, 28 Jan. 2022
Who is really the fraud, the empty-headed playboy who gets by on connections and unearned income, or the unprivileged striver?
—Megan O’Grady, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2020
However, modern processors come with a power meter built-in and allow unprivileged users to read out its measurements from software.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2020
Other brokers within the firm are working to ensure that unprivileged children in the area get something in their stockings this year.
—Amanda Molitor, The Denver Post, 21 Nov. 2019
Ars Technica, 28 Jan. 2025
Most of the vulnerabilities outlined in this new Nvidia security advisory would appear to be in the user layer mode of the GPU display driver, and successful exploitation would allow an unprivileged attacker to cause what’s known as an out-of-bounds read leading to the impacts already mentioned.
—Davey Winder, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
It’s folks who are unprivileged who will be forced to resort to unsafe methods of avoiding pregnancy or terminating pregnancy.
—Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 1 July 2022
The vulnerability lets an unprivileged user overwrite data that is supposed to be read-only, which can lead to additional privilege escalation.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 3 May 2022
Judge David Carter of the District Court for the Central District of California ordered Eastman to begin reviewing at least 1,500 pages per business day starting on Friday, and immediately transfer any unprivileged documents to the committee.
—Grace Segers, The New Republic, 28 Jan. 2022
Who is really the fraud, the empty-headed playboy who gets by on connections and unearned income, or the unprivileged striver?
—Megan O’Grady, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2020
However, modern processors come with a power meter built-in and allow unprivileged users to read out its measurements from software.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2020
Other brokers within the firm are working to ensure that unprivileged children in the area get something in their stockings this year.
—Amanda Molitor, The Denver Post, 21 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unprivileged
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If anything, are champs of being difficult, goofballs, needy, problematic.—
George Saunders,
The Atlantic,
14 Feb. 2025
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Founded 130 years ago, Friends in Deed focuses on the most needy people, operating a food pantry and providing housing assistance and case management.—
Sophie Hills,
The Christian Science Monitor,
23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Audiences savored White’s scathing dialogue, actor Jennifer Coolidge’s tragicomic performance as the emotionally indigent heiress Tanya McQuoid, and the show’s sly insights into how money comes to shape our every relationship.—
Charlie Campbell,
TIME,
24 Jan. 2025
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The commission supports indigent communities, including immigrants.—
Taryn Luna,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Jan. 2025
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As part of a program to help less fortunate communities, Jennifer is also overseeing the conversion of a San Francisco space to function as a ballet studio for underprivileged kids.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Feb. 2025
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Since its establishment, the company’s ethos has been centered on community involvement with a focus on underprivileged youth.—
Molly Peck,
USA TODAY,
12 Jan. 2025
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Three generations of the Kim family have created a politically repressed and economically impoverished state that is nonetheless a pivotal actor on the global stage.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Now with all these things vanished, along with the bookstores and repertory cinemas, the city seems impoverished and disfigured.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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In a blog post published on Thursday, the tech giant said these rules disadvantaged allies, including India, Switzerland and Israel, and limited the ability of U.S. tech companies to build and expand AI data centers in these countries.—
Arsheeya Bajwa,
USA TODAY,
28 Feb. 2025
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By weaponizing bias against itself — using prestigious cultural signals to be grouped with the elite — disadvantaged minorities can hack the system and carve out new spaces for themselves.—
Bethany Thompson,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Even the Kremlin’s own human rights council had denounced the charges as unwarranted, adding its voice to a chorus of support for Prokopyeva in what became a battle of wills between an impecunious local reporter and Russia’s powerful security apparatus.—
Andrew Higgins,
BostonGlobe.com,
6 July 2020
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His half-Danish father, Prince Andrew, second in line to the Greek throne, was sentenced to death after the army was defeated in Smyrna by the Turks, saved only by the intervention of George V. In 1930, after eight years of impecunious exile in Paris, the family dispersed.—
Moira Hodgson,
WSJ,
4 Dec. 2020
Adjective
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Unfortunately, not long after Sow arrived in early 2022, the school went out of business, leaving the 15-year-old homeless and penniless with nowhere to go.—
Steve Hartman,
CBS News,
21 Feb. 2025
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Harper and Ullman said the younger women sometimes looked after elderly, infirm or penniless prisoners.—
Julie K. Brown,
Miami Herald,
23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The political views and values of these mostly young, destitute Iraqi Shias were shaped considerably by the charismatic Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, the founder of the nationalist Sadrist movement (from which Asaib al-Haq and other Shia militia groups emerged).—
Ranj Alaaldin,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Feb. 2016
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So there's a real tug-of-war between being grateful, and feeling destitute and rudderless.—
Bill Chappell,
NPR,
16 Jan. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Unprivileged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unprivileged. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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