How to Use dox in a Sentence

dox

verb
  • Or a closet leftist who might dox him or inform the police?
    — Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Rez says StopAntisemitism does not dox its targets.
    — Mikayla Price, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The Georgian detailed some of the threats as pizza deliveries meant to dox her, pipe-bomb threats and assassination threats against her son.
    — Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2025
  • The tax, plus the bill’s disclosure requirements, would deter third parties from offering this funding and could inadvertently dox conservative activists and donors.
    — George Harris, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Although the Mexican president’s mentor and predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, regularly attacked journalists in his morning news briefings, going so far as to dox critical reporters, Sheinbaum has taken a more measured tone in the face of criticism.
    — Megan Janetsky, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
  • Three months later, an editor named Moira Donegan published an essay in The Cut outing herself as the creator of the Shitty Media Men list—in large part because Katie Roiphe was planning to dox her in Harper’s magazine, which Donegan learned through a fact-checker.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Three months later, an editor named Moira Donegan published an essay in The Cut outing herself as the creator of the Shitty Media Men list—in large part because Katie Roiphe was planning to dox her in Harper’s magazine, which Donegan learned through a fact-checker.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Three months later, an editor named Moira Donegan published an essay in The Cut outing herself as the creator of the Shitty Media Men list—in large part because Katie Roiphe was planning to dox her in Harper’s magazine, which Donegan learned through a fact-checker.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Nov. 2025

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