How to Use read-only in a Sentence

read-only

adjective
  • Enterprises should expect such a system to start in a read-only role.
    — Ronak Desai, Forbes.com, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Begin with read-only access and clear governance policies.
    — Ronak Desai, Forbes.com, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The exploit uses splice() to plant a reference to a read-only page-cache page (for example, /etc/passwd or /usr/bin/su) into the frag slot of a sender-side skb.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 11 May 2026
  • Chatting with Documents For decades, PDFs were static, read-only files.
    — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • One approach is to put the firmware that implements the Root of Trust into read-only memory that can’t be modified once the device is manufactured.
    — Guy Fedorkow, IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2025
  • Restricting agents to read-only access does not work because the most useful agentic work requires write access and businesses will accept the risk to capture the productivity.
    — Shreyans Mehta, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Start with a few read-only integrations in testing environments and then gradually expand capabilities to meet scale.
    — Ashay Satav, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Even when modified by an administrator, read-only community strings are often widely known inside an organization.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Additionally, look for apps with two-factor authentication and grant financial institutions read-only access.
    — Faith Wakefield, USA Today, 3 June 2026
  • How to Describe the World with a Computer The computer onboard Apollo 11’s lunar module had about a mere 74 kilobytes of storage in the form of read-only memory (ROM).
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 12 May 2026

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