How to Use honeypot in a Sentence

honeypot

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  • Two picks would give them more ammo in the honeypot of the draft.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
  • So was the plum pudding, which melted in one’s mouth, likewise the jellies, in which Amy reveled like a fly in a honeypot.
    — Anna Luisa Rodriguez, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The following figure tracks the number of attacks delivered to the honeypot over the past year.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Last week, Reed’s daughter saw a swarm of bees, which led to the discovery of a beehive and a reserve of honey (Reed calls it a honeypot) in a tree in Reed’s backyard.
    — Margaret Kates | [email protected], al, 13 July 2023
  • The Salvadoran artist hadn’t been to the international fair, which serves as a honeypot for the art world elite, since before the pandemic.
    — Dallas News, 14 Dec. 2022
  • His destination, a depression forty feet down into the flowing ochreous void, had in the past proved a honeypot.
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2017
  • Recent sales suggest top niche makers are still his honeypot.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2021
  • The digitally literate among us will of course recognize this as some kind of half-assed honeypot.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Australian honeypot ants gather nectar from a range of floral sources, but they’re thought to prefer a sticky, sweet substance called honeydew made by mulga trees and aphids.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
  • Artworks will be re-homed in small towns and villages, in a bid to spread tourists -- and their spending, as well as their impact on the environment -- around the region, instead of centering them around the Florence honeypot.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN, 23 June 2021
  • As Yiannopoulos flails, some of his erstwhile allies are hoping to dip into the Mercers’ reliable honeypot.
    — Tina Nguyen, vanityfair.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • This eco-focused retreat in surfing honeypot Sumba is the first property from new hoteliers Fabrice and Eve Ivara, who bought this stretch of land after visiting the area in 2017.
    — Sarah James, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Now that Valve's honeypot has been revealed publicly, though, similar systems seem a lot less likely to be effective at catching cheaters in the future.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Her best advice for anyone hoping to apply her clients’ expertise to their own much smaller honeypot is to lean on these six tenets to manage investments, and maintain and build wealth.
    — Nicole Gull McElroy, Fortune, 13 July 2023
  • Part slipper, part clog, the sensible slip-on has proliferated street style round-ups and boujee honeypots all summer.
    — Daniel Rodgers, Glamour, 28 July 2023
  • London has become a honeypot for the international super-rich, especially in the past twenty years, as the city has emerged as the world’s financial center.
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 25 May 2018
  • Cohn’s personal take from that honeypot? $72.5 million.
    — William D. Cohan, vanityfair.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • These displays were a honeypot to entice would-be players—and often wholly unnecessary.
    — Megan Farokhmanesh, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Enlarge / Artist's conception of Valve's anti-cheat tentacles rising up to catch those caught by its memory honeypot.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Eugene is walking with his new love interest, Stephanie, who actually does appear interested in him rather than just a honeypot designed to lure in strangers.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
  • Researchers at Panasonic, meanwhile, turn the company’s internet-of-things devices into honeypots to keep track of the types of malware being used against IoT gadgets and better protect their products against them.
    — WIRED, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Early on, Lenny had inadvertently set up a hoaxer honeypot.
    — Amanda J. Crawford, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Another obstacle is Twitter’s reputation as a honeypot for trolls, harassers and fake news.
    — Jeran Wittenstein, Bloomberg.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Recent news also revealed a legal congressional honeypot, an account that some lawmakers have used to settle harassment claims out of court.
    — Erica Martinson, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2018
  • In any event, a honeypot of laboratory devices Radware uses to monitor Reaper has logged only 4,000 unique IP addresses.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2017
  • As Tigger danced in a field of butterflies, the honeypots inexplicably came to a stop, apparently detecting magnets where none existed.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Jan. 2011
  • Various kinds of honeypots to catch cybercriminals have existed for years.
    — WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Now, Web3 has interesting potential and is a honeypot for venture capital investment, but is also replete with opportunists ready and willing to exploit the credulous.
    — Andrew Williams, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2023
  • These common user inputs are a veritable gold mine for any foreign or malicious actor that sees chatbots as an opportunity to target state secrets, like thousands of digital honeypots.
    — Remaya M. Campbell, Scientific American, 17 July 2023
  • Honey from the Australian honeypot ant (Camponotus inflatus) may have medicinal properties that fight infection.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2023

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