Sentence examples for intercepts from inspiring English sources

The word 'intercepts' is correct and usable in written English
It is usually used when someone or something is blocked or stopped before it reaches its intended destination. For example, "The security forces intercepted the truck carrying illegal weapons before it could reach the border."

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intercepts

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Third person singular of intercept

Exact(60)

Tempora, said to be run by GCHQ, intercepts information and telephone information passing through fibre-optic cables.

■ Allows the NSA to engage in bulk intercepts of internal US traffic which would be forbidden in its own territory.

Mandi intercepts.

Both the Mindanao business council and the Mindanao Economic Development Council recently issued manifestos claiming that despite the conflict and the hostage drama businessmen remain bullish on the island's economic prospects.NOEL CABRERAOffice of the press secretaryManilaSIR Poor Stephen Byers obviously has not been reading his Echelon intercepts ("Those perfidious Anglo spies", April 29th).

It uses radar and optical sensors to calculate the trajectory of an incoming warhead, and then intercepts it with a projectile fired from a roof-rack (pictured).

A widely known proof of concept from 2009, called sslstrip, intercepts unsecured web traffic on an open network and rewrites HTTPS links into plain HTTP or redirects them to malicious secured sites that use lookalike domain names.

Now she has upset the left, telling parliament the intercepts show that the two DS leaders were "knowing accomplices in a wide-ranging criminal plan".

It had to be: Iraq's determination to hang on to its weapons secrets turned inspectors into forensic sleuths, reliant on the spies of America, Britain, Israel and others for clues, communications intercepts and analysis of aerial photographs.

Between 1941 and 1945 Burgess supplied 4,404 documents; Cairncross, 5,832 from the Foreign Office, Bletchley Park and SIS, including some 1,500 intercepts; Maclean supplied 4,593.

Last year NATO planes carried out more than 400 intercepts of Russian aircraft.

When Eve intercepts these tweaked photons, she can gather information on them while keeping the error rate she introduces at just below a tolerable level.

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