bootstrap

Example Sentences

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The "bootstrap lie is finite," Quart writes in her last chapter.

From Salon

“Substack was trying to download a massive portion of the Twitter database to bootstrap their Twitter clone, so their IP address is obviously untrusted,” Mr. Musk said on Twitter.

From Washington Times

“It would be a strange bank shot to bootstrap this into a felony,” he said.

From Washington Post

Talk to me about what "bootstrap" was supposed to initially mean.

From Salon

Before becoming the standard-bearer of the Republican brand of trickle-down economics and bootstrapped public services, his state of California was embroiled in the nation's first scholarly battle for ethnic studies.

From Salon