as in waiters
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 servers
One transition scenario involves hybrid data centers where quantum machines do the heavy mathematical lifting while traditional servers handle the interactions with users.
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Aldo Svaldi, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
Pressure-resistant subsea modules housing nearly 2,000 servers are deployed underwater adjacent to offshore wind turbines, allowing the facility to draw electricity directly from renewable energy sources.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 May 2026
Data centers are buildings where tech companies, including giants such as Amazon and Netflix, store their servers and storage systems.
—Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 19 May 2026
The new code was installed on seven of the firm’s eight order-routing servers.
—Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Local 11, which represents about 2,000 stadium workers, including cooks, servers and bartenders, held a rally outside the FIFA office in downtown Los Angeles on May 1.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 18 May 2026
Historically, Intel's factories only produced its own chips used in personal computers and data center servers.
—Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 18 May 2026
African American men often labored in these environments— as servers or cooks—but African American passengers like ML were not welcome.
—Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
The threat, known as Dirty Frag, allows low-privilege users, including those using virtual machines, to gain root control of servers.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 11 May 2026
Aldo Svaldi, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
Pressure-resistant subsea modules housing nearly 2,000 servers are deployed underwater adjacent to offshore wind turbines, allowing the facility to draw electricity directly from renewable energy sources.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 May 2026
Data centers are buildings where tech companies, including giants such as Amazon and Netflix, store their servers and storage systems.
—Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 19 May 2026
The new code was installed on seven of the firm’s eight order-routing servers.
—Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Local 11, which represents about 2,000 stadium workers, including cooks, servers and bartenders, held a rally outside the FIFA office in downtown Los Angeles on May 1.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 18 May 2026
Historically, Intel's factories only produced its own chips used in personal computers and data center servers.
—Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 18 May 2026
African American men often labored in these environments— as servers or cooks—but African American passengers like ML were not welcome.
—Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
The threat, known as Dirty Frag, allows low-privilege users, including those using virtual machines, to gain root control of servers.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 11 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for servers
waiters
Noun
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Be sure to drop into the sultry Pine Bar—all low lighting and dark corners—which specializes in wonderfully creative cocktails, delivered in whimsical locked boxes by suave waiters in red-velvet smoking jackets.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
19 May 2026
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One of the two waiters, the one who didn’t make sandwiches and was always at the bar, was the one who ruled the roost.—
Óscar Martínez,
The Dial,
30 Apr. 2026
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“Servers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/servers. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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