How to Use anonymize in a Sentence

anonymize

verb
  • If not, avoid sharing it or find a way to anonymize it further.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The slips were delivered, answered in writing, and then anonymized and thrown in a bowl.
    — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Results should be anonymized and ideally benchmarked across time.
    — Cynthia Pong, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
  • To allay that fear, researchers anonymize genomes and follow health privacy laws.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Threat intelligence has been anonymized.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Although the data will be anonymized, some users fear they could still be identified once it is sold to third parties.
    — Vivianne Wandera, semafor.com, 17 June 2026
  • There was no way to anonymize my identity in a data set like geolocation.
    — Byron Tau, WIRED, 27 Feb. 2024
  • All data usage is anonymized and cannot be traced back to individual users.
    — PC Magazine, 26 June 2025
  • Therefore, the case is a matter of a famous man’s word versus that of a trio of women whose names are anonymized in court.
    — Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Protesters also took other steps to anonymize their movements.
    — Jane Li, Quartz, 13 June 2019
  • On the blog itself, comments are public and people often anonymize themselves.
    — Sarah Scoles, Longreads, 8 June 2018
  • Look out for loopholes the app may be using, such as claiming to de-identify or anonymize personal data.
    — Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 7 June 2022
  • However, hashing does not anonymize data for the tech platforms that receive it and match it to user profiles.
    — Katie Palmer, STAT, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The answers are then anonymized, randomized, and rated by a panel of hiring managers to prevent any bias.
    — Byorianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 25 May 2023
  • Hollander said, questioning whether most of the data could be anonymized, at least in the early stages of analysis.
    — Arkansas Online, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Most crypto purchases are recorded on a public ledger called the blockchain, with the buyers and sellers largely anonymized.
    — Eric Lipton, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Samples are now anonymized before researchers can use them, thus maintaining donor privacy to linked health data.
    — Kimberly M. Baker, STAT, 7 June 2023
  • Using Tor to encrypt and anonymize your communications with us.
    — NBC News, 1 July 2020
  • Even if this data is somehow anonymized and aggregated, chances are those in the market for a new vehicle might want to take a closer look.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Plaintiffs in the case, some of whose names have been anonymized, allege they were detained for months and years at a time and subjected to constant surveillance.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • Privacy is built in, with automatic face detection and blurring to keep humans in view, anonymized.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 22 Nov. 2025
  • For the last few years, a slew of start-ups and Google have come to health systems offering to anonymize, organize, and sell their data to pharma.
    — Bryan Roberts, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Tornado Cash, which allows users to anonymize crypto transactions.
    — Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026
  • These behavioral metrics are aggregated and anonymized and are not used to determine rankings.
    — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Does your company take steps to anonymize user data when it is used for its own purposes, shared with service providers, or shared with non-service provider third parties?
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Sensor data collected by the robots is anonymized and used solely to improve the technology.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2025
  • Given that history, the question of how much to anonymize a patient in these tales is well-trod territory for medical ethicists.
    — Rose Eveleth, Wired, 18 Jan. 2022
  • If your visit to a website genuinely only discloses your cohort ID, then that could anonymize you.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 3 July 2021
  • Ad blockers are great for a more enjoyable experience when browsing the Web, and new types of browsers that anonymize your data could help further.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Gratuitous surveillance would be banned—and after collecting data, firms would be forced, by default, to get rid of it, or fully anonymize the rest of it.
    — Tim Wu, The New York Review of Books, 24 Mar. 2020

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