phishers

noun

plural of phisher
as in techies

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  1. technocrats
  2. hackers
  3. technophiles
Noun
  • Hamad bin Jassim ran much of the diplomacy, Sheikha Moza built the education and cultural project, and the gas wager needed technocrats willing to bet on a market that barely existed.
    — Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
  • Crisis and renewal are strictly a matter of marketing now, a fiction that permanently assigns the Democrats the role of technocrats managing national decline while Republicans get to stand for muscular optimism and economic expansion.
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
Definition of technocrats
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  • In this sort of network attack, hackers create a fake public network access point that usually has a stronger signal than the legitimate one.
    — Dan Raby, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Instead, that process was based on a predictable pattern, allowing hackers who possessed a sample seed phrase to use trial-and-error to guess others—and clean out Coldcard owners in the process.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of hackers
Noun
  • Audiences and technophiles have been wowed, but film purists have howled over the trimming of more than 25 minutes of runtime, including some musical numbers.
    — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 16 June 2026
Definition of technophiles
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“Phishers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/phishers. Accessed 13 Aug. 2026.

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