unprivileged

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Recent Examples of unprivileged The pivotal addition to the the state Civil Code reads: Existing law provides that libel is a false and unprivileged written publication that injures the reputation and that slander is a false and unprivileged publication, orally uttered, that injures the reputation, as specified. Dominic Patten, Deadline, 20 Mar. 2025 The researchers demonstrate how an unprivileged remote attacker can then recover secrets stored in Gmail, Amazon, and Reddit when the target is authenticated. Ars Technica, 28 Jan. 2025 Most of the vulnerabilities outlined in this new Nvidia security advisory would appear to be in the user layer mode of the GPU display driver, and successful exploitation would allow an unprivileged attacker to cause what’s known as an out-of-bounds read leading to the impacts already mentioned. Davey Winder, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024 It’s folks who are unprivileged who will be forced to resort to unsafe methods of avoiding pregnancy or terminating pregnancy. Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 1 July 2022 The vulnerability lets an unprivileged user overwrite data that is supposed to be read-only, which can lead to additional privilege escalation. Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 3 May 2022 Judge David Carter of the District Court for the Central District of California ordered Eastman to begin reviewing at least 1,500 pages per business day starting on Friday, and immediately transfer any unprivileged documents to the committee. Grace Segers, The New Republic, 28 Jan. 2022 Who is really the fraud, the empty-headed playboy who gets by on connections and unearned income, or the unprivileged striver? Megan O’Grady, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2020 However, modern processors come with a power meter built-in and allow unprivileged users to read out its measurements from software. Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unprivileged
Adjective
  • The public benefits charge covers everything from energy efficiency programs, solar and electric vehicle incentives, financial aid to needy customers, and the purchase of renewable and carbon-free electricity.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Local officials also break the law, such as when health officials in Mississippi misspent federal funds for needy people on a volleyball stadium.
    Kevin R. Kosar, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Yet over the past two decades, state auditors have repeatedly noted the county was failing to adequately provide indigent counsel.
    Ilana Panich-Linsman, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The city has yanked the contract to represent indigent New Yorkers in Queens from a troubled non-profit which cut ties in February with its founder and long-time executive director.
    Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The students were all previously enrolled in the university’s Insights program, which helps underprivileged young people get into the arts.
    Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Soon after, Henley formed Developing Options, a nonprofit involved in gang intervention that also provided underprivileged children a safe outlet in sports.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • On the idyllic shores of the once popular tourist hot spot Inle Lake, in southern Shan state, the earthquake destroyed hundreds of bamboo houses on stilts occupied by impoverished villagers, according to aid workers.
    Ross Adkin, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2025
  • These navigators link impoverished Floridians with the network of religious and community organizations that support them and teach them how to take of themselves, according to Hope Florida’s supporters.
    Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The predictable result of Trump’s tariffs will be higher costs for American businesses and consumers, fewer export markets, a global economic slowdown and a disadvantaged place in the global economy.
    Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
  • This eye-popping mini was hand-crocheted by disadvantaged female artisans to help empower them — something Chelsea herself is trying to do with her self-deprecating boyfriend, Rick.
    Lois Alter Mark, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Even the Kremlin’s own human rights council had denounced the charges as unwarranted, adding its voice to a chorus of support for Prokopyeva in what became a battle of wills between an impecunious local reporter and Russia’s powerful security apparatus.
    Andrew Higgins, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2020
  • His half-Danish father, Prince Andrew, second in line to the Greek throne, was sentenced to death after the army was defeated in Smyrna by the Turks, saved only by the intervention of George V. In 1930, after eight years of impecunious exile in Paris, the family dispersed.
    Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2020
Adjective
  • Baz Luhrmann’s revolutionary 2001 film about a performer at the famed Parisian nightclub who falls in love with a penniless composer comes to life onstage in March 2026.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Regan befriended Bridger, who died in 1881 blind and penniless after living his final years in Westport, and rubbed shoulders with the James brothers.
    Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The man was destitute and living in poor conditions, including a non-working furnace.
    Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Musk then halts all shipments of aid to destitute countries where children are starving and people of all ages are dying for lack of medical supplies.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025

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“Unprivileged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unprivileged. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.

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