accessed
Americanadjective
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reached, contacted, entered, or visited.
Lot 14 on Smoke Road is an easily accessed lot with great views, grass, and scattered trees.
Your bibliography should include the URL of the accessed website.
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obtained or made use of.
She founded and ran one of the most accessed family counseling programs in the state.
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Computers. (of data) retrieved for use by another program or application or for transfer from one part of a system to another.
Data caching is a way of storing the most frequently accessed data in memory so it doesn’t need to be regenerated each time.
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of accessed
First recorded in 1870–75; access ( def. ) + -ed 2 ( def. ) for the adjective senses; access ( def. ) + -ed 1 ( def. ) for the verb sense
Example Sentences
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Among the examples cited by the task force was the case of French programmer Sammy Azdoufal, who reportedly accessed data from thousands of robotic vacuum cleaners made by Chinese manufacturer DJI.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
It ran from the side of the home into the chauffeur’s bedroom, accessed through a disguised panel in a shower wall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
While “tradition” does not claim a fixed constitutional meaning, in practice the court looks to esoteric sources like Blackstone and old legal sources that are not easily accessed by laypeople.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
Press reports have detailed how ByteDance’s China-based engineers accessed sensitive data of American users and spied on U.S. journalists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Of course, she was still left with millions of randomly accessed, unordered files, but at least now they were all streetcam records of Scythe Faraday’s neighborhood.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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