nefarious
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It’s “a persistent pattern generally attached to nefarious tricks such as channel stuffing, aggressive revenue recognition or extended payment terms used as sales concessions,” Burry said in a recent Substack post.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 27, 2026
But agents have to be given powerful permissions to do their jobs, and we are already seeing this being exploited in potentially nefarious ways in what are called prompt injection attacks.
From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026
A nefarious hacker could have easily installed a virus on to my machine without me having to do anything.
From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026
The implication is that, in addition to engaging in nefarious financial shenanigans, one of Mr. Xi’s most trusted henchmen was plotting against him.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026
But her nefarious plot to bore me to death failed again, because The Tempest was even better than The Merchant of Venice.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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