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How to use the word beacons in a Sentence?

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The fact that were seeing something as old as Ramnit show up in WHOs network is a really bad sign. This trojans activity that weve been tracking as it beacons back to the attackers network is just the smoke of what is probably a much bigger fire going on inside their network, it could be a raging inferno on the inside. If something as ancient as Ramnit can get through their defenses, they have much bigger problems. It means newer malware probably doesnt have much trouble slipping in too.

– Karim Hijazi

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Without appropriate communications devices and beacons it may have turned out differently.

– Rescue Coordinator Chris Henshaw

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Acoustic transmitting beacons can be implemented in, say, a plane’s black box, if it transmits a signal every once in a while, you’d be able to use the system to pick up that signal.

– Fadel Adib

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

These large and rapidly-growing black holes are exceedingly rare, and we have been searching for them with SkyMapper for several months now. The European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite, which measures tiny motions of celestial objects, helped us find this supermassive black hole, as supermassive black holes shine, they can be used as beacons to see and study the formation of elements in the early galaxies of the universe.

– Dr Wolf

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Mondelez has suffered from a general slowdown in consumer demand for snacks across the globe, in particular in those countries that were once shining beacons of hope - China, Brazil and India.

– Jack Skelly

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Beacons are, again, very late in the sale cycle, when you’re in browsing mode, the last thing you want to is to be hit by ads. You just want to look around.

– Pano Anthos

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We tend to think of galaxies as steady beacons in the sky, but they are actually shimmering due to all the giant, pulsating stars in them.

– Van Dokkum

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The advantage these mega companies gain by installing beacons is that they seem more like a small business, customers walk in and get a bit of personalized service through their smartphone like they’d get at a small outfit.

– Steve Hegenderfer

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We believe that life arose spontaneously on Earth, so in an infinite universe, there must be other occurrences of life, somewhere in the cosmos, perhaps intelligent life might be watching these lights of ours, aware of what they mean. Or do our lights wander a lifeless cosmos, unseen beacons announcing that, here on one rock, the universe discovered its existence ? Either way, there is no better question. It's time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. The Breakthrough initiatives are making that commitment. We are alive. We are intelligent. We must know.

– Stephen Hawking

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

– Thomas Huxley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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