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
Despite those worries, more than 20% of the company's revenue has come from stronger-than-expected demand for its servers, storage and networking, which could boost its stock, according to Woodring.
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Liz Napolitano,
CNBC,
23 June 2026
Consider a large financial services firm with tens of thousands of employees and hundreds of terabytes of unstructured data spread across file servers and cloud storage.
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Carl D'halluin,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Rather than sending data to Cohere’s servers, customers receive the model and the software needed to deploy it inside their own data centers, including on systems that are physically disconnected from the internet and to which Cohere has no remote access and no ability to revoke service.
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Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
The vast majority of the staff, from servers and sommeliers to porters and guides, hail from the surrounding area and evangelize for the Eastern Tennessee way of life.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 June 2026
The efficiency gains are partly due to running AI servers hotter, as high as 113 degrees Fahrenheit (45 degrees Celsius).
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Stevie Bonifield,
The Verge,
22 June 2026
Data center servers are not built to last forever.
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Sven Bilén,
The Conversation,
16 June 2026
While the world has stopped for some passionate soccer fans — who’ve likely ditched business meetings to board planes and cheer on their team — servers and cooks plod on at restaurants in the surrounding area.
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Kansas City Star,
16 June 2026
One person remembers musing during his first week about buying a fleet of new computer servers, and being told to purchase them right away.
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Gary Sernovitz,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
Liz Napolitano,
CNBC,
23 June 2026
Consider a large financial services firm with tens of thousands of employees and hundreds of terabytes of unstructured data spread across file servers and cloud storage.
—
Carl D'halluin,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Rather than sending data to Cohere’s servers, customers receive the model and the software needed to deploy it inside their own data centers, including on systems that are physically disconnected from the internet and to which Cohere has no remote access and no ability to revoke service.
—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
23 June 2026
The vast majority of the staff, from servers and sommeliers to porters and guides, hail from the surrounding area and evangelize for the Eastern Tennessee way of life.
—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 June 2026
The efficiency gains are partly due to running AI servers hotter, as high as 113 degrees Fahrenheit (45 degrees Celsius).
—
Stevie Bonifield,
The Verge,
22 June 2026
Data center servers are not built to last forever.
—
Sven Bilén,
The Conversation,
16 June 2026
While the world has stopped for some passionate soccer fans — who’ve likely ditched business meetings to board planes and cheer on their team — servers and cooks plod on at restaurants in the surrounding area.
—
Kansas City Star,
16 June 2026
One person remembers musing during his first week about buying a fleet of new computer servers, and being told to purchase them right away.
—
Gary Sernovitz,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for servers
waiters
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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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Giresse struck up a friendship with Zein in Mexico after Zein decided to organize a match between himself and American kids attending the World Cup against waiters from a hotel in Mexico City.
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“Servers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/servers. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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