ACCESSING Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

accessing

verb

present participle of access

as in entering

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 accessing The gang had orchestrated a $40 million fraud scheme that was based on accessing the ATM machines. — Anna Giaritelli, The Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2026 This feature is actively rolling out across iOS 27 via Apple Intelligence (though accessing camera recording history requires an iCloud subscription). — Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 14 Oct. 2026 Deters was seeking Guilfoyle’s help in accessing administration officials. — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026 Their agents could be accessing data in ways the companies don’t even realize. — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2026 The Key Hours Onza, Prime Video A TV crew embeds with an elite Spanish Guardia Civil investigative unit, accessing real operations involving money laundering, smuggling, violent crime and fugitives. — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026 The state also has policies to prevent federal authorities from accessing motor vehicle and driver's license records of immigrants without a court order or search warrant. — Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2026 Accessibility The higgledy-piggledy nature of the building, with any number of steps going in multiple different directions, does not initially scream accessibility, but there are three accessible rooms and lifts accessing every level. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026 Casting apps from your phone, migrating a task from your phone to your laptop with a single click, accessing your phone files on your laptop, and getting your phone notifications on your laptop all work well. — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2026

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The research fellow also argued that the additional Russian diesel entering global markets is not sufficient to produce a noticeable reduction in consumer fuel prices in the short term.

— Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2026
Upon entering the school building, Krantz said, officers confirmed that the suspect was dead and found the four other people who died from their injuries, and their families have been notified.

— Chad de Guzman, Time, 16 Oct. 2026

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Radar love Each low-flying helicopter is outfitted with a ground penetrating radar (GPR) instrument, one that can detect layering in the near surface, at depths unobservable by orbital radar.

— Leonard David, Space.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Lyubka’s compelling storytelling technique is detailed, lyrical, at times, humorous, and therefore deeply penetrating.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026

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The individual who inflicted the fatal injury drove the spear downward through the victim’s left chest cavity from the front, piercing major arteries and the lungs before creating the hole in the left scapula.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2026
An argument between children over a pizza slice escalated into a 10-year-old girl having a knife thrown at her chest, piercing her skin, by her 8-year-old brother Thursday, police said.

— Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026

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