bait
Example Sentences
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Rhode Island State Police Superintendent Darnell Weaver called it an “endless barrage of misinformation, disinformation, rumors, leaks and click bait.”
He said the hacker groups usually target out-of-date or unpatched security systems, or use traditional phishing methods—baiting users with fake emails or texts.
The team’s most obvious trade bait, of course, remains their collection of young talent.
From Los Angeles Times
Humorous responses to rage bait, which depends on eliciting defensiveness that can be fed back into the outrage machine, robs it of oxygen.
From Salon
In fact, that would be our nomination for the word of the year, rather than the phrase “rage bait,” so dubbed by the Oxford Dictionary.
From Barron's
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