as in waiter
a person who serves food or drink
we had barely finished ordering when the server brought our salads
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Recent Examples of server
The suspects allegedly bought Supermicro servers outfitted with GPUs in Taiwan and then exported them with falsified documentation.
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Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
2 July 2026
The work will address communications systems and AI inference at network edges—meaning in peripheral devices far from central servers.
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Lucas Laursen,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 July 2026
The result is a motherboard that is basically a small, efficient Linux server.
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New Atlas,
2 July 2026
The company is looking to squeeze more money out of its users and price its media server business higher.
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Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
2 July 2026
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Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
2 July 2026
The work will address communications systems and AI inference at network edges—meaning in peripheral devices far from central servers.
—
Lucas Laursen,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 July 2026
The result is a motherboard that is basically a small, efficient Linux server.
—
New Atlas,
2 July 2026
The company is looking to squeeze more money out of its users and price its media server business higher.
—
Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
2 July 2026
See All Example Sentences for server
Recent Examples of Synonyms for server
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At the time of the June 2024 post, Jensen was working as a bartender and waiter.
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Both waiters and watchers then make a beeline back to their original spaces, often losing out to another parker and driving around some more.
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His true seasonal arc begins not with Bruce’s (Damon Daunno) death but rather in the Brick & Bacon, a New York City diner where a 20something waitress named Regina (Delainey Hayles) works shifts that don’t get her any closer to making ends meet.
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Crawford won the 1945 Oscar as a waitress who rises to own a string of Los Angeles restaurants.
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“Server.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/server. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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