How to Use burner account in a Sentence

burner account

noun
  • Does Kevin Durant have a burner account?
    — Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 19 Feb. 2026
  • If these Iowa fans were going to troll this young girl, with burner accounts, Draper would troll them right back.
    — Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2026
  • Platforms attempt to detect suspicious behavior, but many burner accounts still slip through the cracks.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Despite the risk to his own safety and progress, Williams decided to send the journalists anonymous warnings from burner accounts.
    — Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 4 Jan. 2025
  • But the downside of hardcore wrestling fans is all the internet wrestling ugliness (and burner accounts) that makes the IWC tick.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Some people use burner accounts for privacy, while others use them for trolling, harassment, spying or secretly viewing content.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Because burner accounts are difficult to trace, they are often linked to online harassment, fake engagement or manipulation of public conversations.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Kevin Durant didn’t give any answers to the speculation that he had been caught using a social media burner account to talk poorly of his current and former teammates, but that didn’t stop everyone else from speculating anyway.
    — Matt Young, Houston Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The allegations of Tony Khan burner accounts are the latest example of Khan’s oftentimes explosive and erratic behavior online.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Tony Khan Burner Account Scandal | Key Points Top talent agent Nick LoPiccolo accused AEW President and CEO Tony Khan of using fake bots on Twitter/X, or burner accounts, to coordinate an online harassment campaign against him stemming from his criticism of AEW.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026

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