log into

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log into

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Blend of log in (where in is an adverb, not a preposition) + into.

verb logs into · logging into · logged into

often, proscribed, transitive To log in (“gain access, usually by providing a previously registered username and password”) to (a computer system). You can include metadata such as the revision date, the author (if the person who made the change had logged into Wikipedia), and the summary the author entered when he made the revision.
Similar: log onto
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see log, into: (ditransitive) to log (“enter, record, input”) (someone or something) into (somewhere). There was a lot of evidence; it would one day take eight hours to log it into the trial, and, yet, there was so little that could help in the probe as far as leading the investigators to the man they sought.

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@misc{log_into_2026,
  title = {log into},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/log%20into},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}