How to Use alphanumeric in a Sentence
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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 -
When coronavirus variants emerged in full force in late 2020, the news suddenly turned into alphanumeric soup.
— Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2022 -
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 -
In crypto’s earliest years, the pseudonymous nature of transactions—whereby coins are exchanged between wallets identified only by an alphanumeric address—was frequently mistaken for anonymity.
— Joel Khalili, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024 -
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
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