How to Use alphanumeric in a Sentence

alphanumeric

adjective

• The legends on the alphanumeric keys are sharp and even without being overly thin.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2022
• They were each given two minutes to shower, and addressed by staff with an alphanumeric code, rather than their names.
  — Griff Witte, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2019
• Carr flipped through the letter, skimming the alphanumeric sequence.
  — Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, CNN, 1 Nov. 2019
• Users can also set up a longer, alphanumeric passcode that’s harder for bad actors to figure out.
  — Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 23 Apr. 2023
• That ute's lack of an alphanumeric model name was confusing, and things didn't become any clearer with the arrival of the e-tron GT performance sedan.
  — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 22 Dec. 2022
• Until now, there has been an alphanumeric naming scheme (P1) but that is giving away to a Greek-alphabet naming scheme.
  — WSJ, 11 June 2021
• For example, each Louis Vuitton bag made since 1982 bears an alphanumeric code that can help authenticate a piece.
  — Alesandra Dubin, Glamour, 5 Apr. 2022
• These services make the process of dealing with cryptocurrencies less about long alphanumeric addresses and QR codes to something more like Venmo or a banking app.
  — Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 4 Feb. 2019
• A hash function like SHA-1 is used to calculate an alphanumeric string that serves as the cryptographic representation of a file or a piece of data.
  — Lucian Constantin, PCWorld, 10 May 2017
• Along with the alphanumeric legend standard on most keyboards, there's an additional set of legends printed in blue and orange.
  — PCMAG, 15 Sep. 2023
• Birders were able to decipher a unique alphanumeric code on a flamingo that had been banded at Río Lagartos, a breeding colony in Mexico, Lorenz said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2023
• Unionized health care coders, who assign alphanumeric codes to medical procedures and services for billing purposes, earn about $30 per hour to start, according to the union.
  — Taryn Luna, sacbee, 27 Apr. 2018
• Cadillac has made other attempts at re-invention, including a shift to alphanumeric names for its vehicles before going back to names again.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 22 July 2022
• Aberdeen Swim Club’s public address announcer reads through each dive’s alphanumeric code pre attempt then scores for each competitor post attempt.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 17 July 2023
• Both are composed of generic domain names followed by a pseudorandom alphanumeric string of seven to nine characters.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 12 Oct. 2019
• Lately however, the post-Omicron news landscape is turning into alphanumeric soup again.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2022
• As a technical matter, unlocking many smartphones is a trivial problem once the device is in the hands of a forensic technician, especially if the phone is locked with only numbers and not an alphanumeric password.
  — Mattathias Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 8 Oct. 2020
• The biggest problem is that blockchain technology is mostly anonymous, with the data comprised of alphanumeric characters.
  — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2022
• Formerly anonymous public servants became the topic of vicious debate among strangers with alphanumeric Twitter handles and pictures of dogs as online avatars.
  — Damian Garde, STAT, 26 Dec. 2019
• But even adding a special character or alphanumeric combination can only add so much protection from bad actors.
  — Jennifer Korn, CNN, 3 May 2023
• After scheduling and paying for tests, the provider is supposed to generate an alphanumeric reference that must be indicated in the passenger locator form.
  — Anne Quito, Quartz, 18 Oct. 2021
• Bearing witness to group dynamics revealing themselves in alphanumeric characters was also hard for Kira von Eichel, a writer in Brooklyn.
  — New York Times, 29 Jan. 2022
• The first is a decentralized database that maps people’s phone numbers to public encryption keys, alphanumeric strings required for transacting in cryptocurrency.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 22 June 2018
• Since the average bar code can only hold 20 or so alphanumeric characters, the factory was using multiple bar codes to track parts through a complex system of inventory and shipment — requiring multiple scans at every stop in the supply chain.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2022
• That’s because the guides assume attackers will use brute-force methods, in which every possible combination is methodically tried in alphanumeric order.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2023
• Password: lovedogs Error: Password must contain at least nine alphanumeric characters, including one number.
  — Claire Friedman, The New Yorker, 15 July 2019
• Digital currency addresses are alphanumeric identifiers, which are linked to online wallets.
  — Samuel Rubenfeld, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2018
• For those not acquainted with Bugatti taxonomy, the model designations present a bewildering assault of alphanumeric nomenclatures.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 4 July 2022
• One by one, White's dummy files are encrypted, rendering them into inaccessible, alphanumeric gobbledygook.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 8 July 2017
• As a result, the World Health Organization hasn’t granted them official names beyond their alphanumeric identifiers — leading to an unofficial system, circulating on social media, using celestial or mythical monikers.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024