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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The company has benefitted from a boom in AI servers as a key supplier of high bandwidth memory, or HBM — a type of DRAM used in artificial intelligence servers — to clients such as the U.S. AI darling Nvidia.
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Dylan Butts, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2025
The group was unable to recover from the scandal, and Bravo ultimately opted to reboot the show entirely, starting with a fresh group of servers for Season 12.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 22 Apr. 2025
The announcement mentioned a new advanced manufacturing plant in Houston to produce servers that support Apple’s AI, but the plant is owned by Foxconn, which is doing the investing.
—Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 17 Apr. 2025
The engineer who works through the night when the servers are down.
—Ryan Wong, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
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Dylan Butts, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2025
The group was unable to recover from the scandal, and Bravo ultimately opted to reboot the show entirely, starting with a fresh group of servers for Season 12.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 22 Apr. 2025
The announcement mentioned a new advanced manufacturing plant in Houston to produce servers that support Apple’s AI, but the plant is owned by Foxconn, which is doing the investing.
—Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 17 Apr. 2025
The engineer who works through the night when the servers are down.
—Ryan Wong, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
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“Server.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/server. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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