Trojan horse
Example Sentences
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"It's been a kind of Trojan horse for bad development," Owen Espley, the group's community campaigns manager, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Meanwhile, Time is helping advertisers get their messages in front of bots, using a sort of Trojan horse approach—creating text-based ads that regular readers never see but that AI crawlers might find.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
This so called Trojan horse effect allows harmful pathogens to persist and spread through drinking water systems and may also play a role in the rise of antibiotic resistance.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 2026
The fictional Norfolk-based host can be used as a comedic "Trojan horse", he says, to talk about taboo subjects and to "mock different kinds of received wisdom."
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025
Once the virus enters the cell, it becomes a Trojan horse.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
