Example Sentences

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The employees clicked on a link in the body of the email, thinking they were accessing a legitimate message, according to the agency.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2024

It said her allegation that private investigators were accessing credit agencies to get her personal information were false, arguing that journalists were paying for searches on the Electoral Roll.

From BBC • Jun. 14, 2023

“The overall decline … demonstrated that fewer individuals with a disability or very low incomes were accessing benefits,” auditors found.

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2022

Few of the patients KHN interviewed could recall being told that they were accessing emergency services, nor did they recall entering a space that looked like an emergency room or was marked as one.

From Salon • Nov. 15, 2022

Google denied wrongdoing, arguing that the employees it fired or suspended were accessing files they should not have and had no right to dictate with whom the company does business.

From Reuters • Mar. 21, 2022