phishers

Definition of phishersnext
plural of phisher
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Noun
  • The technocrats, many of whom are career officials from the Palestinian Authority that governs parts of the occupied West Bank, have instead spent their time in meetings, making policy plans for their eventual return to the Gaza Strip and its mounting humanitarian challenges.
    Matt Bradley, NBC news, 25 Apr. 2026
  • But the presence in Iran of American missionaries and, later, invited government technocrats, was of an entirely different quality.
    Daniel Thomas Potts, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • One of the complaints, citing cybersecurity reports, alleges hackers may have stolen hundreds of gigabytes of data.
    Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Worse still, by hyping Mythos as an unusually powerful tool too dangerous for public release, Anthropic turned it into an obvious target, whether for malicious actors or hackers simply looking for a challenge.
    Robert Hart, The Verge, 23 Apr. 2026
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“Phishers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/phishers. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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