How to Use hack in a Sentence

hack

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• She's not sure she can hack that miserable job much longer.
• There were doubts about whether the new hire could hack a job with so many responsibilities.
• My mind reeled at the prospect of trying to hack on it.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2023
• The plan involves hacking staffing costs by up to a fifth.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 13 Mar. 2024
• The two men hacked away at rocks and sand in a crevice between boulders.
  — Thomas Fuller Jim Wilson, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
• Back in 2020, Forward Air was hacked by a group known as Hades.
  — Levon Gasparian, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• The truth, which will come out in the course of this case, is that the Times paid someone to hack OpenAI’s products.
  — Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2024
• The people on the phone produced a fake scan on Guthrie's laptop that said it had been hacked.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2024
• Perversely, when the two seek out the source of the gunfire and find a corpse hacked in half, their nonchalance is even worse.
  — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• The source said the website was not hacked because no access was gained to systems or content.
  — Zoe Magee, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
• The cantaloupe has been hacked into, exposing seeds and pale flesh.
  — Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
• The Clop site also claimed that the group had hacked Hatch Bank and provided 10 screenshots that appeared to confirm the claim.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2023
• But the circuit was very cool because now your CPU can know when someone’s trying to hack it.
  — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2024
• Prince Harry launched the claim in 2019, alleging that his phone voicemails were hacked.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2023
• What is the best way to protect your Mac, Windows, iPhone and Android devices from getting hacked?
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 2 Nov. 2023
• The corporate account of one of its engineers had been hacked.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 19 Jan. 2024
• Pasadena police are banking on a phone-hacking tool to solve a cold case murder.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2023
• The company’s website was later hacked and his team was forced to change to a more secure email system.
  — Ed Meza, Variety, 20 Feb. 2023
• There are entire Reddit threads and dozens of YouTube videos that teach kids how to hack their devices and sneak around behind parents backs.
  — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2023
• This history stretches back at least as far as the 1950s, to the early days of phone phreaking, or hacking phone systems.
  — Rachel Metz, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2023
• Officials described having to hack away at brush so thick that searchers even a few yards apart couldn’t see each other.
  — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
• The paddlers quickly pulled off to the right bank, secured the canoes and set up camp, while a scouting party hacked their way through the brush to reconnoiter.
  — Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
• But what if someone actually hacked their whole life with it?
  — Leif Wenar, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
• The couple also sued a number of news outlets, accusing them of hacking their phones that same year.
  — Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2024
• The macro causes Office to download a .zip file from a legitimate website that has been hacked.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2023
• To extricate Karth and her children, a rescue team equipped with hydraulic cutting tools hacked the car apart.
  — A.c. Thompson, ProPublica, 13 June 2023
• Savvy cybercriminals can hack into your phone, steal your voice and use it to drain your accounts.
  — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024
• The servers still have access to user data and can be subpoenaed by governments or hacked.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 6 July 2023
• The restaurant phone line was hacked, the Yelp profile was flooded with fake bad reviews, and people made reservations and never showed up.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
• The care also suggests the hands were removed after death, not hacked from living prisoners.
  — Byandrew Curry, science.org, 5 Apr. 2023

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hack

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• Reddit declined to comment on the record about the hack.
  — Mia Sato, The Verge, 19 June 2023
• These design hacks make for the perfect pieces to wear from dinner to the beach.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 27 Mar. 2024
• But there are plenty of hacks of the Flipper and the Wi-Fi board themselves.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Apr. 2023
• The evidence that this is a leak, and not a hack, appears strong.
  — Stuart A. Thompson, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• Watch the video above to learn 6 fashion hacks to make clothes fit better.
  — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
• But, the way the Padres are going, Juan Soto has to start taking hacks.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2023
• This is a hack that an actress told me, which might sound gross to some people.
  — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 3 June 2023
• No matter the case, there are tips, tricks, and viral hacks that can make your hair grow fast.
  — Tomoko Takeda Canel, Seventeen, 1 May 2023
• The first one is the Robert Morris hack, the Morris worm, the first hack that’s kind of brought down the public internet in 1988.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 July 2023
• Joe is just a hack and a slacker who everyone loves to hate.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 14 Sep. 2023
• The two then discuss hacks on how to keep your tree alive as long as possible.
  — Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 20 Nov. 2023
• Tonal dressing has long been a go-to styling hack to elevate a look.
  — Alex Kessler, Vogue, 2 Aug. 2023
• Here’s what dermatologists had to say about the hack and the best ways to protect your hair.
  — Korin Miller, Health, 20 Mar. 2024
• The style hack has been used by Kate for several years and there’s a simple reason why.
  — Monique Jessen, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2023
• The hack went undetected for years, according to the timeline on the blog post.
  — William Turton, Fortune, 1 June 2023
• Living in a studio apartment has taught me a lot of space-saving hacks.
  — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 29 Jan. 2024
• Some of your favorite faces share the dos, dont's, lessons learned, and go-to beauty hacks that helped shape their skincare routines.
  — Essence, 16 Sep. 2023
• Now, although hacks like this may be a bit out of our control, there are ways to keep your data safe and secure.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 18 Oct. 2023
• Try these timeless, DIY wall art hacks to decorate that pesky blank wall in your home.
  — Claire Hoppe, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2023
• Here are seven of the best diaper-changing hacks that all new parents need in their lives.
  — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2023
• Put organizing pros’ best hacks to work in your pantry.
  — Leslie J. Thompson, Dallas News, 24 July 2023
• Details of the hack are complicated by the fact that much of Ukraine was under missile attacks around the same time.
  — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2023
• In this second video, McIntyre also added one of our all-time favorite hacks: The hanger trick.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2023
• Two broad categories of bike racks eliminate the need for such awkward hacks: those that rest on the floor and those that must be mounted on the wall.
  — Cassandra Brooklyn, wsj.com, 3 May 2023
• The basic recipe has been unchanged for years until our Test Kitchen stumbled across a new TikTok hack.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Aug. 2023
• And a hack to host large holiday gatherings was foiled.
  — Michael Levenson, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
• The dress buttons up the front with a covered placket, and Swift wore it with a gold chain belt to accent the waist—a timeless styling hack to help jazz up a basic look.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 24 Jan. 2024
• Now, even as inflation rates have ebbed, the hack of keeping a price unchanged but just filling, say, your bag of chips with less food, hasn’t.
  — Bysasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2024
• So, when seemingly easy hacks pop up on TikTok, like cleaning coffee grinders with rice, many of us are quick to give it a try.
  — Christina Manian, Rdn, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 July 2023
• Elevate your hair care routine (and learn how to clean your hair brushes) with a few of these simple hacks, below.
  — Audrey Noble, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024