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Discover LudwigThe phrase "access to a lost" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete thought and lacks clarity.
Example: "The team was trying to gain access to a lost document that contained crucial information."
Alternatives: "access to a missing" or "access to a misplaced".
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In listening to the tapes, while making a radio programme about them, I felt as if I had access to a lost world; at times, the interviewees gave a hilarious depiction of life in the early 1960s – one young woman confesses to not knowing what the word "lesbian" means, thinking it is a kind of omelette – as well as one that was beautiful and hugely moving.
Years ago, it sent police to break down a reporter's door to regain access to a lost iPhone prototype, that the news org had come to acquire.
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With each spiced waft we are attempting to access a lost feeling: that of being a kid, when Christmas still meant something.
But having lost access to a case manager, she spent four days trying unsuccessfully to reach a doctor.
Standard Chartered picked up what soon proved to be a jewel, and ANZ lost access to a market that has yet to be regained.
"Google has lost access to a very, very important data channel in the North American market," commented Ben Wood, mobile analyst for CCS Insight, a research company based in London.
"We lost access to a treasure that we all pay for with our tax dollars, and we got mad," Ms. Woosley said.
Shorn of EU funding, the school's scientists have also lost access to a range of MSc and researcher mobility schemes that, while often "complex, bureaucratic – all that's wrong with the EU, basically", according to Mortensen, "are still really, really important for younger academics".
With one false move, people lost access to a significant part of their digital identity and trove of personal data.
One of the challenges in the cord-cutting era is that TV viewers have lost access to a lot of news content we used to take for granted.
1. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign temporarily lost access to a national Democratic Party database after what happened?
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