Sentence examples for like a hack from inspiring English sources

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He seemed like a hack.

Quoting from "[sic]" makes me feel like a hack: it's too easy; the margins of my copy are filled with scratches of admiration.

In removing the app-launching function from the Home screen, Facebook has wound up having to reinvent the way you open programs on your phone, and the result feels like a hack.

After all, if you walk out of a show you can pass yourself off as morally robust; if you fall asleep on the job, you just look like a hack.

Then there were the Altoids tin mods (a mod is a modification, like a hack), simpler than hollowing out a light bulb and filling it with concrete, yet still strangely satisfying: a clock, a strobe, a speaker and a tiny guitar, to name just a meager few.

She delivers a crucial piece of her life, whole, to Jarecki — who treats it like a hack's screenplay and makes a facile illustration of it.

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The way Snaith goofily waves to the crowd like a hacking contest victor confirms he couldn't be cool if he tried, but musically he is a shrewd operator, borrowing from techno's past and present to bolster his naive melodies.

Another thing he'd like to hack: a relationship.

And though that may not sound like too dangerous a hack on its own, the reality is that cryptojacking risks overpowering a CPU, causing it to crash.

Because there is no mention of "homebrew" content like video players and the like, this looks to be a hack that enables piracy on the platform.

Just like deflecting a hack-and-slash attack, timing is also the key to successfully carrying out this counterattack.

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