Thesaurus results for PASSWORD

password

noun

ˈpas-ˌwərd

as in word

a word or phrase that must be spoken by a person in order to pass a guard the password for the all-night rave will be changed next week

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Recent Examples of password Kohlmann says every device should soon have a unique root password, one that Yarbo won’t provide to end users; firmware updates have already rolled out to the first 1,000 machines and are coming to additional waves of robots. —

Sean Hollister, The Verge, 11 May 2026 If your school tells you to reset your password, do it right away. —

Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 11 May 2026 This method involves tricking an employee or person with elevated access into giving up their password. —

Marybel Rodriguez, CBS News, 9 May 2026 Although some personal information associated with user accounts may have been involved, the company said there was no evidence that passwords, social security numbers, financial information or other highly sensitive data had been compromised. —

Tarini Mehta, Sacbee.com, 8 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for password

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word

Noun

Each puzzle has exactly one solution, so watch out for words or items that seem to belong to multiple categories!

— Mark Cooper, New York Times, 18 May 2026
One important tool in early natural-language-processing work was ranking the frequency of word sequences.

— Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 18 May 2026