read-only
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The remaining two were only accessed in a "read-only manner" and were not used to help break into Hugging Face, OpenAI said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Tom Krause, chief executive of Cloud Software Group Inc., and Marko Elez, an engineer who has worked for Musk’s private companies, will both retain ostensibly read-only access to payment information.
From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2025
The 7,000 subreddits moving to read-only or private translates to a serious loss in user interaction.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
“I think the added pressure with social media is that with all those traditional forms — books, television, movies — back in the day, most people were living in a read-only environment,” Nagata says.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023
Node:read-only user, Next:README file, Previous:RE, Up:= R = read-only user n.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele
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