How to Use jailbreak in a Sentence

jailbreak

1 of 2 noun
  • Browns fans deserve a jailbreak.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Daryl Watts opened the scoring late in the second period with a jailbreak goal.
    — ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Read Lily’s story about the jailbreak of John Deere tractors.
    — WIRED, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Some jailbreaks will coerce the chatbots into explaining how to make weapons.
    — Rachel Metz, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2023
  • This is a far cry from jailbreaks over the past decade that forced users to run outdated versions of iOS.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 15 Nov. 2019
  • This is a big word and is no parallel to a jailbreak when one is probably headed for a new jail or will be forced back to the old one.
    — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Esquire, 7 Mar. 2017
  • They are believed to have placed the toilet back on the wall after the jailbreak to conceal the hole, according to the source.
    — Jason Morris, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Can the defense be disciplined enough to prevent a Jackson jailbreak or three?
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Here's everything to know about their infamous jailbreak.
    — Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Being the only one around here with a conscience, Klimova will have to figure out what kind of jailbreak is called for.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Wilson, facing a jailbreak from the 49ers defensive line, is sacked for a 7-yard loss.
    — oregonlive, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Charles, the inmate facing murder charges, had called a man before the jailbreak, officials said.
    — Nic Anderson, CNN Money, 23 Dec. 2025
  • All the jailbreaks [that] were done later on [happened] once the operating system boots.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2019
  • In an age when everything else is captured for public consumption on a smartphone, why not your own jailbreak?
    — Michael Balsamo, The Seattle Times, 27 July 2017
  • Turns out there’d been a jailbreak from the Pine Street Hotel and the two fellows on the lam were in our back yard.
    — Michael Smerconish, Philly.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The local sheriff also lost his job following the May jailbreak.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The Jays tacked on four more runs against Dombrowski’s Triple-A bullpen in a jailbreak ninth.
    — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2019
  • The escape, Israel’s biggest jailbreak in more than 20 years, set off an uproar.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Its blitz across Iraq in 2014 was made possible by massive jailbreaks.
    — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The best days for iOS jailbreaking were years ago, when jailbreaks were common, easy to use, and available often.
    — Wired, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Usually the fence holds, but this time the goats managed a jailbreak, knocking down the walls of their pen and pouring onto the streets of the neighborhood.
    — Melissa Locker, Time, 13 May 2020
  • Some of the most dangerous failures in AI don't show up as spectacular jailbreaks.
    — Sandeep Shilawat, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • The jailbreak gained him a golden ticket to the 275-acre Farm Sanctuary.
    — Zolan Kanno-Youngs, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2018
  • So what [Recidiviz has] done is sort of jailbreak this data from these old systems and read it back to those organizations.
    — Ali Fazal, Fortune, 13 July 2022
  • The last option is much cheaper and easier to deploy, especially when a jailbreak is found after the model is out in the world.
    — Peter Hall, Quanta Magazine, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Worried he might be implicated in the jailbreak, the inmate revealed the plan to prison psychologists.
    — Michael Gold, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Simon ultimately stages a jailbreak, busting Trevor out of the top-secret desert prison and flying them both away to safety.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
  • That jailbreak method is currently blocked in over 99 percent of cases, Anthropic said.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 1 July 2026
  • The Bengals eased the rookie into his first game in 19 months, calling his number on a jailbreak screen that picked up 16 yards.
    — Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The jailbreak rule states that if a team that’s killing a minor penalty scores a shorthanded goal, its player may leave the penalty box, and play reverts to 5-on-5.
    — Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 18 May 2026

jailbreak

2 of 2 verb
  • Harsh winds and salty air chewed through concrete and corroded steel, enabling some famous – but failed – jailbreaks.
    — Troy Aidan Sambajon, Christian Science Monitor, 21 July 2025
  • Capitalism breeds a future where people have to jailbreak their car for features that are already built into it.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 15 July 2022
  • However, when Leila arrives at the institution, planning to jailbreak her bestie, things begin to shift.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Anthropic says whatever jailbreak the government found is not serious enough to warrant such a drastic action.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 13 June 2026
  • Crucially, this ability to jailbreak with adversarial poems isn’t just a gap in one particular software’s armor.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Previous jailbreaks this year have spurred policy debates and raised questions on jail oversight and maintenance, with repercussions for public safety and criminal justice administration statewide.
    — Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez AIOpenAI OpenAI’s new safety tools are designed to make AI models harder to jailbreak.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2025
  • To jailbreak ChatGPT, NBC News asked the models an innocuous question, included the jailbreak prompt and then asked an additional question that would normally trigger a denial for violating safety terms, like a request for how to create a dangerous poison or defraud a bank.
    — Jasmine Cui, NBC news, 10 Oct. 2025

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