accessed

verb

past tense of access
as in entered
to go or come in or into could not access the bank vault because the lock was controlled by a timer

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Recent Examples of accessed Positioned above the bathroom and downstairs bedroom, it's accessed by some steps and looks large enough to be used either as a secondary sleeping space for guests or as a storage area. — New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2026 In addition to an outright ban of the controversial private surveillance systems, the ordinance called for new measures to preserve the city’s data sovereignty and set controls on how data from CCTV cameras in the city can be accessed. — Noah Daly september 2, Idaho Statesman, 2 Sep. 2026 OpenAI's security and safety practices have been under intense scrutiny after the company disclosed that two of its models escaped their training environment, accessed the open web and breached Hugging Face's systems last month. — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026 Dining unfolds in the former detention center, where the accused were held before trial—a grand building accessed via a zigzag of white pathways surrounded by flowers. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2026 What’s unclear right now if that API and publicly available Steam2 server content were accessed recently or if this weekend’s leak represents content that was privately archived before the 2013 server transition and is just now being made public. — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 30 Aug. 2026 The websites for each of his movies have plain backgrounds and unfussy font choices that put me in mind of pages coded in HTML and accessed on a desktop with a gurgling internet connection in the family study circa 2003. — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026 According to OpenAI, its models escaped a sandboxed testing environment, accessed the internet and exploited a vulnerability to gain access to Hugging Face’s systems while trying to find information to cheat on an evaluation. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026 Anthropic disclosed three incidents during third-party evaluations in which its models accessed the internet and gained unauthorized access to external organizations. — Alex Heath, Time, 26 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for accessed
  1. entered
  2. penetrated
  3. pierced
Verb
  • The Hugging Face deal marks the second-largest for Nvidia; the chip company entered a $20 billion non-exclusive agreement to buy assets from chipmaker Groq in December.
    — Jake Angelo, semafor.com, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Deputies entered the home after the three-hour standoff and took the woman into custody without incident, Igoe said.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of entered
Verb
  • On August 7, the Oregon governor’s office confirmed hackers had penetrated the core control systems of an Oregon water district.
    — John Caruso, Hartford Courant, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The Mughals were heavily outnumbered by the Afghans but had penetrated the opposing army from the side and rear, causing great losses in Hemu’s army.
    — Tamanna Nangia, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of penetrated
Verb
  • The bullet pierced the restaurant glass and left a diner with a minor injury.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Aug. 2026
  • The morning following the storm, co-owner James Durawa told WISN 12 News that a tree pierced part of the restaurant's tin roof and would cost about $18,000 to remove.
    — Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of pierced

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