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  • noun Plural form of CAPTCHA.

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Examples

  • The beauty of most modern CAPTCHAs is that they simply take Latin characters, so they don't actually need to understand what the words mean.

    Spammers Use The Human Touch To Avoid CAPTCHA 2010

  • Here's an interesting proposal to replace the text in CAPTCHAs (those boxes where you type distorted words) with text that has stymied the optical character recognition software used to digitize old public domain books.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • The puzzles are called CAPTCHAs, and a human can decipher them but a computer can't.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • The puzzles are called CAPTCHAs, and a human can decipher them but a computer can't.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • The puzzles are called CAPTCHAs, and a human can decipher them but a computer can't.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • The puzzles are called CAPTCHAs, and a human can decipher them but a computer can't.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • The puzzles are called CAPTCHAs, and a human can decipher them but a computer can't.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Even if workers are paid just $3 per 1,000 CAPTCHAs, that is expensive, he says,

    doggdot.us 2008

  • All bloggers and blog users are familiar with these "CAPTCHAs".

    Colleague's CAPTCHA James F. McGrath 2008

  • All bloggers and blog users are familiar with these "CAPTCHAs".

    Archive 2008-08-01 James F. McGrath 2008

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